Working from home has become a reality for many people in the last year. Many companies have decided to implement teleworking indefinitely until the situation returns to normal. Others have opted for a hybrid teleworking model, which maintains physical work on specific days of the week. Whatever option you make, to make teleworking as efficient as possible, here we leave you with a list of our recommendations.
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8 tricks to work from home
1. Own space to work
The first recommendation we make for working from home is to have a own space and, if possible, set aside to do so. Being all day in the same room where you eat, work and sleep, will hurt your productivity since you will hardly feel like you are able to disconnect. We recommend having a space that is completely dedicated to work and that is quiet.
2. Try to follow normal routines
Although one of the good things about working from home is the possibility of avoiding wasted time traveling, we recommend that you try to follow some of the usual routines that you follow when working physically. Carrying out certain activities, such as showering, getting dressed or having a coffee, can help you activate yourself and feel in the same mood as if you were going to work.
3. Organize your daily life
Having good organization is essential for working from home. Even if you are not in the office, it is good to try to schedule daily tasks and objectives so as not to take focus away from your priorities. A good option during teleworking is to do it with collaborative tools in the cloud, such as Google Calendar, which allow you to share your agenda with your team. In this way, apart from having a good organization, you will also improve distance communication.
4. Define your priorities
Related to the previous point, it is very important to be able define your main priorities, whether daily or weekly. To do so, we recommend creating a list of the 5 most important things that you need to achieve in your day or week, to focus only on these. This way, you will avoid getting distracted or getting stuck in low-priority tasks and it will be easier for you to achieve goals.
5. Make video calls regularly
Although some people may consider video calls a waste of time, if done well they become a key part of not losing contact when working from home. For video conferences with your team to be effective, you must have a good application to do them and have a planning of the meeting. On the one hand, an application like Google Meet, between others, which is easy to use and has collaborative functionalities, can make the meeting much more efficient and creative. For example, Google Meet now includes functionality that lets you see your team's faces while you edit Drive documents in parallel. On the other hand, you must have a plan with the time you want to dedicate to each part, to avoid wasting more time than necessary.
6. Take breaks
It seems obvious, but taking breaks is even more important when working from home. When teleworking, it is common to spend a long time in front of the screen and not take any breaks. We always recommend taking breaks of about 10 minutes to rest your eyes and move around a little, even if it's just around the house. This will help you activate and make your day-to-day life much more bearable.
7. Have the necessary tools
Another point that seems obvious but is essential to be able to work from home correctly. Although teleworking took many of us by surprise and without the necessary material to implement it optimally, it is important to start having adequate resources to work from anywhere. When we talk about tools, we are referring to both a desk, chair and screen suitable for not straining body posture and eyesight, as well as computers and software prepared for working remotely. Currently, there are different applications that allow you to collaborate easily. Our recommendation is to opt for spaces like Google Workspace, in which you have all the necessary applications and functionalities, in one place.
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8. Take advantage of your moments of maximum productivity
Changes are often a good excuse to take advantage and introduce new improvements. In the case of telecommuting, also. We no longer only talk about normalize the possibility of working from home or from anywhere, but also to change the mentality of work. For this reason, we consider that it may be a good time to change the way we work, and let's start guide us through our moments of maximum productivity. We all have times of the day when we are more or less productive. This is why it is a good idea to focus the maximum workload on those times when we are most efficient, and reduce it when we are not. Thus, burnout is avoided and the achievement of objectives is facilitated.
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If you want to revolutionize the way your company works, and start its digital transformation, as a Google Premier Partner we can help you. We know that each sector needs to face different challenges, so we can guide and advise you based on your needs. You just have to write to us here or call us at +34 634 88 78 70.
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