It’s an essential and commendable thing for people to do all they can to stay home to prevent COVID-19 from spreading in their community. More people than ever are working from home during the pandemic as we continue to limit indoor gatherings as much as possible.
While working from home is essential from a public health perspective, the fact is, it requires some considerable adjustments as people struggle to be as productive in their homes as they are in their old workplaces. Here are a few tips that may help.
Professional Shredding
Does your work produce sensitive materials that are lying around your home instead of the office? You may feel apprehensive trying to work amid so much sensitive material. Put your mind at ease and eliminate the possibility of a data breach by calling professional document destruction services to your home.
Professional shredders securely destroy paper documents, electronic devices, and more. They can shred your sensitive materials right from the curbside in their mobile shredding truck or pulverize the microchips of electronic devices, so they no longer pose a data liability.
Call them today to keep your workplace more secure or to destroy sensitive personal documents you wouldn’t want falling into the wrong hands.
Ergonomic Furniture
You can kick your feet up after five PM, but the posture you use to watch movies is not the one you need when doing your daily work. Find a suitable place in your home that’s comfortable to do your job.
The seat should be ergonomic, or at least one that’s designed for work. In other words, a kitchen chair wasn’t meant to be used for eight hours a day.
You don’t want to develop a bad back or cramps in your wrist from clanking away at your keyboard at the wrong angle. Over time, this can happen.
The Right Music
Some people like working in quiet while others don’t. Similarly, working in a silent office is nothing like a busy newsroom. Do you want to replicate the volume of the environment you left behind or change it up?
You won’t have much water cooler chat, but you do have sovereign control over the music. Many people like listening to instrumental music because hearing words can be distracting. Play whatever music is most conducive to getting your work done, not just the music you like the most.
Remember to Breathe, Drink Water, and Walk
Getting to work from home is a luxury that not all workers can enjoy, but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy. Being away from colleagues at work and strangers during the commute is isolating, and juggling the responsibilities of the home with work-life can be extremely difficult.
Amid all the stress, change, and unpredictability, don’t forget to take care of your physical and mental health! Drink a couple of litres of water, take deep breaths when anxious, and break up your workday with some safe and socially-distanced walks.
If you get rid of data liabilities but also make sure to add suitable music, furniture and look after yourself, you’ll have a safer and more comfortable work from home experience.
