Any person working at home would also have to deal with the circumstances of his own, but the majority have encountered a number of problems in common.
Work at home – work from home – is one of two phrases are young people share the most these days, besides social distancing – social isolation.
With the epidemic situation happenings of stress, a lot of companies across Vietnam have allowed employees to work at home, just to ensure the safety for staff, just practice social isolation in an effective way.
When working at home, you have to recognize when to start working, where, and how to create boundaries between work life and personal life. Simple example as you work on the beds is certainly not okay, because that area of your routine capital for the rest, not appropriate to create motivation work. In addition, other factors such as office equipment, building relationships with colleagues, the progression of project... are also equally important with people working remotely.
Here are 20 tips to help you work at home effective:
1. Maintain schedules on a regular basis
You need to give yourself a work schedule specific and strict compliance with that schedule. When there is a clear plan, now, how, what or when is the hour of rest will help people work remotely, the balance is work and life. If you do not have time specific, and that makes you can hardly create a habit to maintain.
In addition, when working at home – especially for those who work to the time zone difference – that is the biological clock of you will also have to change to better suit the nature of work. If you fall into that situation, you might consider starting work earlier than usual and allow yourself to have plenty of space to rest or sleep a little later if the total of your working hours longer than usual. You can also install a few apps to help you in managing time and work in an effective way (for example as: Rescue Time).
2. Create a routine in the morning
Decided to sit at the table and start working while in mode, work from home is one thing. Create a routine that leads you to decide on the back is a different story. What in the habit every morning of you will start to let you know that you have started seriously working? It can be a cup of tea or a cup of coffee sip before starting, or is after you shower, finished, or is after you run about, or is after you had breakfast done, or is wearing a set of clothes as seriously as when go to work. Create a habit in the morning and repeat it before you start working will help you have a serious attitude more.
3. Set rules with the people in your space
When working remotely, and most are working at home, you cannot avoid sharing space with his relatives. Therefore, you need to set the rules with people when you are working. For example when you have kids to school, home from school in time you are still at work, children need to know is what they can do and not do in that time period.
Add a note is if you have a maid to clean the house, does not mean your relatives think that you allow anyone is harassing your space. If you tolerate being disturb it, so can the performance of your work shall be diminished. Therefore, you need to speak up and set out principles – also means you are serious with the work I'm doing.
4. Gaps rest between working hours
You need to know policies, the break of his company is doing and let's apply them to the work schedule, work from home by themselves. Also if you are a freelancer autonomy in their work, then let her have a free time to stand up, go back in the house, or out of place his work in a few minutes to relax. Typically, the company will allow a lunch break and about 10 – 15 minutes of rest in the afternoon so that you can recover his concentration.
5. Enjoy leisure time to the full
Don't change the break of yourself, especially the lunch break. Let your body rest fully in one hour lunch break. Don't workaholic (except when it is truly urgent and important), don't even go eat right now, if time, you can allow yourself to get some shut-eye quickly, about 15 – 20 minutes. According to research from scientists, this is about you precious time so you can recover energy before starting to step into the frame work hours in the afternoon.
6. Out of the house
You don't need to be daily, eat out, but you should try to leave the house often. Similar advice applies to both the office staff is to leave the building you are doing at least once per day. Your body needs to move, can't sit lì hours on chairs. More fresh air and natural light is also good for your body again. Let's go for a walk around the area of your home if it is, whether you are performing work from home.
7. Don't hesitate to ask what you need
If you are an employee working at home, work from home, be proactive, propose what you need to meet such as computers, tools, work... Only when you actually start to work a day or two early, you know I've had enough of what I need yet. This is extremely important and urgent to you to set the tool to support you working in a comfortable way as when you are working in the company, ensuring maximum productivity of you.
The company usually has proposed budget support for the employees work at home, even policies about shipping furniture – machinery about the house. So don't hesitate to ask what you need from the company to be able to meet the work completed smoothly at home.
8. Definitely between the individual and the company
In an ideal environment when working at home, you will need to have two computers, one for work and one for personal use. Also in the minimal case, you only have a computer to use, then you should definitely about what time is the period you worked for the company, and your notes on it to ensure productivity. The other personal work you do on the time after you have reached a sufficient number of hours worked for the company. Just so that you can ensure the productivity of his work.
9. Maintain a contact phone number private
Set up a phone number that you will only use to communicate with colleagues and customers. You don't necessarily have to add a phone line at home, simply is a phone or a SIM in another phone. Or similar is the application tool that allows communication online through your phone as Skype, Workplace... The ultimate goal similar to you balance between work and life.
10. Use VPN
For civil office, then this must no longer strange, what with you again. VPN is a tool that helps you to access a network system that you don't manage or due to security regulations of the company, only the network's new company can gain access to the system. In case you work at home work from home, you will need to contact the network administrator at your company are working to have full access to when you go to work, ensure your work smoothly as possible.
11. Communicate with colleagues
Lonely, lost connections, and feeling isolated is the common problem in the lives of working people work from home, especially extroverts. The company, remote work, there are usually ways to help employees connect with each other. For example, they can set out the chat channel connection employees who have the same hobby into a group like the reading board game... for staff to share and chat with each other.
The important thing is that you feel a need to connect, how much is enough. Even if you are introvert, do not like socializing, then also try a few interactive experience with colleagues to get acquainted with them. If you are not yet acquainted with the culture of working remotely, you have to be more proactive in nurturing the relationship with colleagues – because in the end, it is still helpful for your self and work again.
12. Appear in the meeting online, and be heard
Be sure when working from home style work from home, there will be times you participate in the meeting online video call, or even the meeting/talking't need an appointment in advance, mainly to exchange and capture faster than typing letters or email. If it is, be prepared to appear before the camera in your laptop. Management and your colleagues will feel more confident when you are still keeping a serious attitude when working at home.
In the meeting online, you also need to speak up so people know you are active and have at it. Sometimes just the sentences say hello, thanks, goodbye will simply enough to colleagues and people remember about you.
13. “Meet” directly
It sounds like “fiction” in the days work from home but meet here does not mean that you gathered with colleagues. Meet face means you video call with a few colleagues and his boss, with the aim to talk, share and connect with each other outside of work hours (not to be confused with the meeting offline). The the story, this game definitely will help both you and your colleagues more comfortable, help remember each other better and from which less stressed about work at home.
14. Sick leave
When you're sick, please take the time to recovery when you need. The vacation days is usually located in your rights while working with any company. However, you don't take advantage of sick leave as a reason when you don't need them. If you are a designer, freelancer, freelance work, there is no policy on sick leave, don't fall into the trap of trying to work without attention to health. Know that when you stay, you will also lose money in, but ultimately, this is a long distance fight and you need to protect the health of yourself more than anything before. In addition, work when not sick, it will also yield a lot more.
15. Looking for the opportunity to be trained
When you're not working directly in the office, you may be unconsolidated miss the training and development skills are taught directly at the company. Your company can also forget that you can participate in online training courses from a distance. Although this is something you can choose to participate or not, but follow my advice, you should actively participate. Firstly, this is good for yourself because you still would like to further develop the skills of themselves, right? Monday, when personal development is synonymous with the work of your development and advancement opportunities is that absolutely can happen. Don't miss these opportunities.
16. Communicate overkill
Working remotely work from home requires you to communicate more normal levels. You can give colleagues or those who need to contact you about the timetable your day. Any time you empty to be able to contact. Because of the distance away so people won't know what you're doing. Therefore, you do not necessarily have to inform the details about all their activities. Just make sure that you still answer they need. If it's urgent then call for you to grasp the situation.
17. Be always positive
I personally like the message is concise and clear, but I know that when I'm not directly communicate with many people, then they probably won't know or don't understand the type of expression of me. Therefore, when working work from home full time, you always have to be positive in all words and actions when communicating, even the positive excessive. This may sound silly, but in reality, it is a way to help the distance between you and the colleague is not far from each other. Let's find out what the expression, fun or the sticker/emoji fun to the expression of feelings of you.
18. Take advantage of you
Working remotely work from home lets you have a number of advantages of its own. For example, I have a hobby baking and when working at home allows me to do that (of course not affect his work then). Before the start of office hours early in the morning, I start preparing and waiting for the oven and then take the finished product. Or you can wear comfortable clothing when working or turned on a music without the fear of disturbing others. Enjoy it as a favorite part of your work.
19. Don't be too hard with yourself
The staff work work from home successfully and most efficiently is the staff extremely disciplined with yourself. Ultimately, to be able to work as effectively as when you work full time at your company, you have to treat it seriously when made at home. I know sometimes we lose focus, especially when working remotely. You can work about half an hour's start go check out other miscellaneous things. That's not good. However, you need time to adjust those habits. So don't be too hard with yourself in the early stages when working remotely.
20. End a day of work with a routine
Like creating habits to begin a working day that, you also need to create a habit or a sign to end the working day of when you work from home. It can be an alarm in your phone, or a milestone time you set out to tell is have you finishing work on the company. You should come back to life his daily such as going to cook dinner, pimp your pet for a walk,... let's finish the job with a habit of regularly repeated. It helps you balance between real life and work at home.
Let's personalize your way
Above all, when work from home, find out the way to suitable and best for your self. Because of work circumstances and the nature of work of each person are different. Sometimes you may not find the right answer so you can ask questions from colleagues who were in the same boat with himself, knowing where they have the solution to suit you. Be flexible and proactive in finding solutions for when work from home offline. Wish you achieve productivity and efficiency in the epidemic season this difficult.
According to the source kenh14.vn
