How to Stay Organised While Working From Home

Simple Ways to Stay Organised While Working Remotely

So many people across the world are getting used to working from home. Remote work has presented new challenges for everyone, not only the usual job problems you encounter every day. But there are ways you can help yourself to stay organised while working from home. This doesn’t just mean you will be more productive, but you will be happier too.

Let’s explore some of our best tips to help you while working remotely:

How to Keep Organised

Like any great office, your workspace at home needs to be organised and tidy. This means removing distracting personal items. If there is something within arms reach that will steal your attention, keep it away from your work area; at least during working hours. Try to replicate your workplace at home. This way you will increase your productivity and better separate your home and work life.

No matter how disciplined you are, how good you are at focusing and concentrating, distractions can put you off doing your work. Putting them out of sight will also put them out of mind. Keeping only what you need to work around you will also help to keep your workspace clean. Whether it’s your desk or an improvised space like your kitchen table, make sure it’s tidy and somewhat looks like your office desk.

Minimising office distractions is a task our interior designers have when working with clients. We do this in two ways:

Dedicated Communal Area

A good workplace will also have areas not dedicated to work. Rooms and spaces where you can congregate for lunch or to relax on your break. This is important to make sure everyone is comfortable and happy in the office.

At SEC Interiors, we aim to create dynamic and unique office designs. This includes breakout rooms and canteens. To install a great office, every room needs to be the perfect design, especially recreational areas. It’s essential for team morale and workplace productivity. When there is a dedicated communal area everyone can separate work and break time more easily, and remove any distractions that could disrupt them.

Organised Spaces

We can’t keep your desks and office space clean, tidy and organised for you. But we can install a design that makes doing this as simple as possible. For example, we aim to help you optimise your space so that you have more storage areas. This makes keeping your office organised much more simple.

You can use these two concepts in our interior office designs to help you while you’re working from home. Invest in cheap storage equipment such as folders to keep yourself organised. Also, have separate areas where you work and where you have your break. This is essential when working from home to help maintain your work-life balance.

Maintain Your Work-Life Balance

You may think that working from home can be a great way to maintain a good work-life balance. And yes, it can be. But it can also be difficult to separate work from home when you haven’t got the buzz of your workplace around you. Seeing your colleagues leaving and having a place to go back to can help you to separate working hours and your personal time.

Whereas when you work from home, you may be moving from your desk in your bedroom to your living room. Slightly different. Which is why it’s easier to lose track of time and work extra hours without thinking about it. Everyone works late every now again. But working late regularly can badly affect your productivity levels.

Set an alarm to remind you when to stop working. This will help you establish a routine which will make working from home easier in general. Once that alarm goes off, try to stop working and separate yourself as much as possible from your job. Don’t carry on using your work computer, sit in a different room if you can, and mute all your work communications (after saying bye of course). Sticking to a consistent work routine can improve your mood and also increase your productivity during your standard working hours.

Setting a routine is important. Here are some more benefits a solid routine can have on your working life…

Get Into a Routine

Routines are important. In all areas of life. They help to keep us organised, prepared and ready for anything we may encounter during the day. When working from home, getting into the right routine can help you to be happier and get more work done. A good example of this is your morning routine.

Everybody has certain things they do when getting ready to go into the office. Certain things like warming your car up aren’t going to be necessary when working remotely. However, sticking to your normal routine as much as possible can get you into the right frame of mind for the day ahead. For example, don’t sleep in and rush getting ready. Give yourself time to do all the things you would normally do in the morning if you weren’t working from home.

Having a routine like this will get you into the right mindset ready to sit down and be productive. It doesn’t only have to be in the morning either, set out a regular time for breaks and lunch. This will give you times to stick to and help you to focus. Ensuring you make the most of your time is important in any job, but especially when you’re working from home.

Manage Your Time

Just like avoiding clocking off too late, it’s important to keep track of time when completing tasks. In the office, you may have someone come up and ask you when something will be done. This can push you a bit to have it ready as soon as possible. At home, that’s not going to happen. That’s why it’s important not to spend too much time perfecting one piece of work.

A good solution to this problem is to track your time. Set alarms or start a stopwatch. Keep on top of how much time you’re spending on specific tasks, this will allow you to manage your time effectively. Instead of spending too much time perfecting one aspect of your position, you can delegate your time and produce good work on all the tasks you have to complete.

When working from home, it’s also important not to expect too much of yourself.

Set Expectations

If you’re working from home, it’s reasonable to expect the same amount of work done as you can complete in your office. You shouldn’t be expected to produce more or less. That’s why it’s important to not be hard on yourself if something doesn’t get done. If you think you’ve been slow to complete a task, look back and find the cause or the reason why. Once you know the reason, you can implement a solution.

It’s a good idea to make notes on the average amount of work you get done in the office. This could be the tasks you complete, calls you make or words you write. If you’re matching these numbers while working from home, that’s great. Now you only have to focus on improving, like you normally would when working in the office. If not, then we hope this blog has given you ideas on how to work from home more effectively.

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