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5 Tips for a Better Work-From-Home Experience
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Once upon a time, working from home may have been a more appealing avenue for work.
Perks? No office interactions with people you dislike. No one-on-one meetings with your boss. No cold sandwiches from the office fridge with cheap coffee. Instead, the comfort that only your home offers while getting paid for it. Online meetings in semi-casual clothes (or pajama bottoms, no judgment here) with your favourite gourmet coffee. And for lunch? A freshly grilled sandwich straight off the pan.
What could be better than working from home! It’s strange to see how perspectives can completely shift. These days, most people are fatigued with working from home. This pandemic has drastically altered how we live, how we work, and most importantly, how we take care of ourselves both physically and mentally.
Working from home is a lot of work when everyone in your household is doing it, but here are 5 tips to create a better work-from-home experience:
1. Work Coast vs. Home Coast
Finding your own private space to work is important, but it’s crucial to differentiate that space from the rest of your home. Otherwise, it will feel like there’s no escaping the stresses from work in your own home.
2. Treat your home office like your work office
Whether you work in a cubicle or your own work office, design your home office as close as you can to it, that way, when you’re working from home, it will be the business front of your own home. What plays to your hand is that you can also allow your home office to feel warmer, more welcoming, and ultimately make you feel happier while working. Perhaps we can skip the fluorescent lights!
3. Dress to impress
Impress who? You! There’s no one in your own home who you should feel you need to impress, thus dressing up is for you, take care of yourself every morning as you would have in the past. Feels good to look good.
4. Table for me, myself, and I
Allow yourself the same time allotted for lunch you would get at work. Just because you’re at home, doesn’t mean your lunch hour is reduced or altered (unless your boss is Darth Vader). Take your lunch break with ease knowing you have your fridge and pantry to work with! And if you can spare the time, make lunch for those you live with. I’m sure they could use a freshly prepared sandwich or soup: working from home ain’t easy!
5. Keep in touch with work friends!
Sometimes, working from home can feel like you’re doing the job all by yourself when chances are, you’re working alongside different colleagues from different departments. Now, if you feel like communication is lacking, your colleagues probably feel the same way, so reach out and talk about it. The only way to solve problems is by addressing them in the first place. A quick chat will never hurt anybody!
It may seem like these tips are a lot of work, and working-from-home may not always be a great experience, but these tips will hopefully make your work become more engaging and less stressful.
We may not be able to choose to work from home or from the office, but as the great Stoic philosopher Seneca once said, “No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”
Make the best of what you’re given. These tips may not be for you but if you think you know someone who struggles working from home, then pass along! And don't hesitate to give us a call here at Pathway-Therapy if you'd like to dive deeper.
At Pathway-Therapy, we openly welcome and work with many life challenges.
Understanding why and how you react or feel the way you do in relationships with others helps you take a step towards a healthy, grounded, and fulfilled place in the world. Working with a trained psychotherapist will help you explore your life with different lenses and introduce alternative choices and pathways.