Working from home: 4 tips to stay focused

Unfortunately it notes RIVM Still a lot of coronabes making every day and we all work at home. We do meetings at the kitchen table and the living room is suddenly both the home office of two working parents and the day care center for the children. Now that the children are also at home, working from home has certainly not become easier. How do you ensure that you remain concentrated and you can continue to do your work from your house? How do you stay focused?

Tip 1: Make it comfortable

Working from home should first of all make it as comfortable as possible. Not on that wooden kitchen chair at the too low kitchen table. You not only get bothered by your neck, shoulders and hands, but it is also disastrous for your concentration.

So ensure a good workplace. Setting up an ergonomic home workplace is not that difficult at all. In the blog: Working ergonomically from home? You need this! Read exactly what you need.

And so it starts with a desk and a fine office chair, because nothing distracts you more than a painful back, shoulder or hand. Ergonomic and beautiful agencies are well available so make sure you can work at home.

Tip 2: Clean up and organize

Another reason why you lose focus while working is Rommel. Working from home does not become easier with piles of paper in the living room or kitchen, books on your couch and your laptop on the table. Make sure you clean up papers in, for example, a chest of drawers or in a desk with drawers.

Do you get distracted by all the books and trinkets around you while working from home? Then take a bookcase with doors or desk with storage space. Working from home is also better if your desk is empty and tidy.

Ensure an ordered and tidy home work agency before you start a meeting, conference call or hem meeting. You will notice that your conversation is a lot nicer and finer and that you have a better concentration.

Tip 3: empty your head

During this time it is easy to get distracted from your work and at home there are often more distractions than at the office. That is why it is good to occasionally empty your head by, for example, going outside and walking. You can also try to put your phone away and only enjoy your cup of tea or coffee.

Working from home has the advantage that you can also do something else at noon. Take that freedom and then start working again.

Tip 4: Plan your day

Do not go if the proverbial chicken without a head at 8:15 am behind your laptop in an attempt to arrange everything that comes at you. Before you know it, working from home in the telephone and extinguishing fires via Zoom.

Therefore make a good planning. Do not check your e-mail every 10 minutes but plan two or three times when you take the time to answer your e-mails. Also plan time for lunch and coffee.

Working from home is unfortunately the norm for the time being so make it pleasant and comfortable for yourself. A tidy living room also helps you to stay concentrated. And are you still looking for a Christmas gift? How about something beautiful to organize your house? Living living has the most beautiful Christmas presents, also for home workers!

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