What you should do when you Work from Home?

Working from home is commonly used for freelance workers. Personally, I never had a chance of working from home in my entire career not until I got employed by my current employer. This of course is on a case to case basis. It is an advantage for us (the employees) to at least get the chance to work at home when we need to.

Personally, it was really helpful to have the capability to work anytime at anywhere most specially when you are living in an area where flooding is a usual thing.

Well working from home is a struggle too because it provides you the comfort of your home, an easy access to your bed, fridge, television and a lot more.

Here are my little tips that work best for me.

Make a standard office space – define your work space make it a point to be office like. You can personalize your room but the main take a way here is to make sure that your home office gives you the feeling of not being at home. I made sure that my table is facing a wall and not the window where I could see what’s going on outside that may draw me outside my office. Your home office shouldn’t have a television set or a radio.

Set-up a standard working hours – be consistent on your working hours and never break it up. Manage your hours. Commit yourself to specific hours just like working at the office. The deal here is the more you commit yourself and honestly following your working hours you would likely to get your work done efficiently. Working from home gives you the benefit of choosing your own time. You wouldn’t need to go or report to the office from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM but rather you got to have an option to work at night as well. If you are the type of person who functions better at night (if the kind of work you do permits) then you might want to start working at 7:00 or 8:00 PM. Whichever you choose make yourself a routine and be consistent and committed to your set of scheduled working hours.

Lock up yourself in your office room. The office standards start to slip away when you work from home. Let your family and friends to stay away from you during your working hours. When office is your home your kids may be noisy or a family member would ask you questions that they normally wouldn’t ask you when you go into a normal office set up, or a friend would drop by. It is always best to explain and make it clear to them that you are not available during your working hours and questions and interruption is only reserve for urgent matters.

Make necessary connection – always have this constant communication with your boss especially and with your co-workers. Also, maintain a very good and clear contact with your professional world whether they are your client, your boss or your contact information.