Here are a few tips that may help you work from home more successfully
- Try to have some regularity in your day
- Get dressed
- Start and end the day at consistent times
- Check email at the same times
- Do (most) tasks in the same order
- Obviously, variety is the spice of life, but I have found that regularity helps me not have to think much about certain things
- Focus is the key:
- Turn off all personal IM’s
- Turn off Facebook/Instagram/etc. notifications
- Turn off personal email
- Turn off all personal social media feeds
- Close personal websites (news, Pinterest)
- Time-at-your-desk is now that the only indicator for managers to use to determine productivity, now results are more heavily weighted. I know we have IM indicators, but still results are the best indicator