How Pretending We’re at the Office Leads to Successful Home Work
The Avoiding the Temptations of Home series made it clear that ironically, to successfully work at home, we have to pretend we’re at the office. And this involved dressing up for work, setting up a good home office, using it effectively, and being your own boss.
Here are three more things you can do to make the most of working at home:
- Pretend Your on the Clock. Start and end working at the same times everyday. And preferably during “normal” office hours. This makes sure you have enough time to get an appreciable amount of work done, while making sure the work doesn’t dominate your life. Don’t forget, working at home means you don’t have to suffer the daily commute!
- Pretend That You Can’t be Interrupted. Freelancers make the mistake of allowing interruptions when they work at home. Unless it’s an emergency, act as if you’re in the office, and make sure everyone knows that just because you’re staying at home, you still need to focus on getting things done.
- Pretend You Don’t Have Connectivity. Another mistake that freelancers make is assuming that the Internet will always be there. The reality is that 100% connectivity is all but impossible, and you may find yourself wishing you download that file before your connectivity failed. So do so now, while you still can. Especially since residential Internet connections aren’t as reliable as corporate ones.
There’s a reason why companies insist that most of their employees report to office everyday. Like it or not, the typical corporate environment features advantages that facilitate productivity. That’s not to say you can’t get anything done by working at home. In fact, by combining the advantages of a normal office—by pretending you’re in one—with the advantages of working at home, you can enjoy the best of both worlds.
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