From the course: Prioritizing Tasks for Maximum Impact

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Structure your day when working from home

Structure your day when working from home

From the course: Prioritizing Tasks for Maximum Impact

Structure your day when working from home

- [Host] Could you give us perhaps your top one or two best practices and worst practices for folks finding themselves in a work-from-home situation for the first time? - [Interviewee] Yeah, I think structure is really key. If you have never worked from home, some people aren't prepared for it. It can be lonely, it can be mentally boring, because you don't have all the same activity, and you find yourself, "Huh, wow, I didn't have that commute, so I have some extra time here." So I would first of all resist the urge to cram more in. In other words, if you left the house at seven to start work at eight, still start work at eight, don't let that time creep kind of make your day from eight hours into 10 hours, that's very easy to do in a home office. I would then say set some boundaries, because it's very easy to let your work life blur into your personal life, because now you're in an office that might be your bedroom, or the…

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