By Eunice Olaleye
Keyphrase: productive home office
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Working from home has many advantages. You have no business thinking about road traffic, stress due to moving from one location to another; and sometimes, flexibility in working hours.
While these advantages are true, it can be quite distracting to work from home, and that’s why you need to set up an environment that helps you stay productive.
Setting up a home office is your best bet for staying productive as someone who works from home. It sets up your environment for work and helps you meet your goals in good time.
Now, how do you set up a productive home office that keeps you focused on work? Let’s check the following ways together.
1. Find a spot to this purpose
Find a space in your house that suits the purpose of setting up your home office, and design it. This will create a sense of predictability around your work rate that helps to keep your mind focused on the need to put working hours to productive use, each passing day. It will help you feel like you’re actually at work whereas you’re at home.
2. Get appropriate furniture
You don’t want to use a sofa as your main work chair because it defeats the purpose of setting up a home office that keeps you productive. Get a work desk and an ergonomic-friendly chair just to have a healthy and comfortable experience at work. You don’t want to work so hard and lose all that money to poor health.
3. The ambience of the space
The atmosphere of your home office plays a major role in how productive you are with work. What’s the colour of the walls? How excellent is the lighting of the room? Are there curtains there and what kind? What kind of decor do you have there? Remember it can either be appropriate or distracting.
Also, keep the space clean and organised. It’ll help to counter distractions and stress. Make your space as comfortable and conducive for it and you’ll be thankful for it in the long run.
4. The appropriate tools and gadgets
Equipping the office in your home with the appropriate tools and gadgets like a computer, wall clock, a stable internet connection and moderate lightning, notepads, pens, calendar, sticky notes; and anything that applies to the kind of work that you do, will make your work a success.
5. Have a routine that works
You should create a schedule for how you want to go about your activities; within your home office and outside it. This will help you maintain a healthy work-life balance. No just that, it will also help you to create time for breaks or other activities outside work.
Another advantage of having a routine for home office is that you get to set boundaries and keep distractions at arm’s length. That is, you know what to say ‘yes or no’ to, and at what time.
Above all, working from home has its advantages but you might be at a disadvantage if you don’t have a conducive home office to work in. Set one up and make a difference in the quality of your work.
