Join CareerOM Community on WhatsAppReality of a Remote Work: Tips on Having a Productive and Stress-free Remote Work
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Introduction
Ever heard someone hype remote work before, they be like, “you get to do things you want when you want, you have your own freedom, you are free from. The stress of coming to your physical office“……. (Should I really laugh now).
Whilst remote work saves you the stress of commuting from your home to your workplace, especially people who work in the busy cities. It also keeps you on your toes. Let's take a look at a scenerio where you have to work late into the night to meet up with deadlines and also prepare the presentation for a meeting to take place by 9 am the following morning which also might last all day.
Trying to decide what to eat while tidying up work is another common issue, eventually fixing the problem after settling for a simple meal that really shouldn't take that long to decide on and eventually having “breakfast” by 4pm, stretching your back by 4:30pm because you are feeling that ache on your back as you click the link to join another meeting where you will be making a presentation, the meeting which is meant to end by COB (5pm) but eventually ended by 6:50pm.
It would have been a fair thing if it ended there but as the meeting ends you get started on closing out things which takes you back into the late hours of the night leaving you with the trouble of what to have for dinner.
Does that simple story sound like yours,we would love to hear what your experience was in the comment section below the post.
So, how can you ensure a productive and stress-free remote work experience, just as it should be?
Here are few tips we've come up with to help you manage your remote work life
1. Create and Stick to a Daily Plan:
Careful draw out your plan for each day and be disciplined to stick to the plans: make out time to put up a framework or schedule which you follow each day in working, this might appear very simple and less potent but believe me you will realise it's potency when you start working overtime and seeing your schedule, it starts giving you a feeling of cheating yourself and you really get the nudge to make amendment.
2. Prioritize Timely Meals:
Eat at appropriate time: this is very important thing, don't sacrifice your healthy and timely eating habits because of work, I understand how complex and urgent some works might be but in all sincererity if you have a breakdown in your health, things will fix themselves or if they won't fix themselves other people will surely get them fixed.
3. Communicate Your Schedule:
Make your schedule known to colleagues, associates, clients and bosses: yeah, you don't get to state some factors, probably you won't be consider as a great guy if you tell your client or boss you can't pick their call by a time due to a healthy habit but when you have make your value known in an organization, or to a person, there are ways you can communicate and get your associate to understand the need for you to be off work at some point in time. This done with the knowledge that you have a good track record of being a productive, hardworking guy in the organisation.
4. Take Breaks
Take breaks: on days that you really have observed that the work is going to take till on your time and warrants you to neglect your schedules, you are advice to make time for breaks as often as possible, might do a couple of stretch, walks and exercise by this time.
5. Leverage Productivity Tools:
Use productive tools: there digital tools that could free our times and fix some of the minor works and get us some free times to work with. We advice you engage and use such tools after careful examination to check if it aligns with your objectives.
6. Allow time for social activities
Prioritize engaging activities, if possible outdoor, don't be the all inside guy, go out catch some fun, meet with friends, go to place of worship, skate,cycle, get to your reading club. Get involved in activities that get excited and stress free aside your job
Conclusion
Remote work is good, yes and a brilliant way of working, no doubt but when not effectively and efficiently managed the full benefit and advantage therein will not be realised leaving the worker even in more confused and stressed state than he was when working on-site.
