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Work from Home Series: Separating Work and Personal Space

Series: Staying Positive and Productive While Working from Home Creating a Separate Work Space Depending on when you are watching this video, we are currently in the midst of a worldwide pandemic for 9+ months and counting. Regretfully this has led to a spike in unemployment, second only to the Great Depression. For those of us lucky enough to stay employed, many of us have been thrusted in a work from home environment. From the many articles I’ve read, the traditional office space is changed forever and permanent work from home is coming! Many employers see the opportunity to downsize the office space and save money. Moreover, many employers who feared a decrease in productivity have learned that this isn’t the concern once believed. This has been a tremendous learning experience for me along with many of you. I’d like to share what I find as the key points to successfully working from home. Those factors include keeping your work and personal space separate, staying engaged with our coworkers and finally, finding ways to stay productive and disciplined. Today I’m going to discuss the first point, keeping our work and personal lives separate. Create a separate work space. I realize for some folks this is easier than others but would implore you to carve out some sort of dedicated work space. You very well may need to rearrange your furniture to do so. For me, I don’t have a home office or even a desk, so we found a folding table and chair. I scrounged around my house to find ways to organize my office supplies, etc. I tried, however possible, to re-create my office work space at home. I found an old desk organizer, a wire rack and some old plastic containers. For those of you with a little money to spend, I found Ebay a good source for gently used office furniture and organizational tools. Set ground rules with family members and roommates For those of you with small kids at home, trying to keep your children engaged in e-learning, my hats off to you! I don’t have children so I can’t really speak to the challenges associated with this. Either way, all the more reason to set some ground rules. In a dream world, we’d all have a separate room to conduct business but that’s not the case for my husband and me and perhaps not for most of you. That said, create signals with your family, which might be as simple as putting a Do Not Disturb sign on the back of your chair. Communicate! I usually tell my husband when I’m about to jump on a conference call so he knows I’ll be unavailable. Use headphones to drown out background noice. Find some time to be alone. Again for those of you with kids, might be rolling your eyes but even a short walk to the mailbox can help! Finally, ask your employer for what you need to be productive Many, if not most, are willing to provide at least some basic equipment to help you stay as productive as possible. I know my employer shipped me a printer and I borrowed a second monitor from the office. Some employers are even willing to get you a proper office chair and other furniture. Be selective in your requests, keeping in mind that many businesses are facing financial struggles. Like I said, asking for a second monitor is very reasonable, asking for compensation for increased electricity bills from a computer and light bulb, not so much! (and that’s a real request I received from an employee). I hope you find some of these tips to helpful. I’d love to hear from you with any additional suggestions, Next video we’ll discuss how to tay engaged with your team. Please click subscribe for updates.