Disadvantages of remote work and how to avoid them

The first impressions of working in his native nest are pleasing to everyone without exception. For example, in a day, a few extra hours suddenly appear - after all, the countrymen no longer envelop you in public transport. You are free from heartbroken business lunches. And those who were annoyed by the air conditioner and the vibrating alert on your mobile are now also in the past. In addition, from now on nothing prevents you from going to bed and getting up much later than usual, stimulating your own working capacity with Vivaldi concerts and not taking money for someone else's birthdays. But in a couple of weeks in you and others will open and new interesting features. Although it is fairer to call them problems. 1. You are distracted
A free wind circling the head, beckoning social networks, and now you did not even notice how the five-minute coffee break turned into a full-fledged online shopping. If you do not differ pedantry and punctuality, the difficulties with planning time are inevitable. Especially in the case when the work has to be combined with study or care for the blood. In this situation, it is important for you to learn how to schedule correctly and persistently adhere to it. Fix in the diary all the cases that need to be resolved during the day.

• Bring to the top of the list urgent.
• Leave the most difficult tasks for your most productive hours.
• Think about what items can be combined - for example, phone calls and a walk with a child.
• Have selected breaks and a backwater for their time alarm clock.
• Be sure to define the scope of the working day - otherwise you will not notice how the work will occupy the entire space of the apartment and your whole life.
  

2. You are closing yourself
Weekends and holidays for homework to the insulting are invisible - because you are surrounded by the same interior, no novelty. Therefore, it is especially important to invent rituals to change the situation and follow them ironically.

• The day off (even if it happens not on Saturday, but on Thursday) should be as far from the computer as possible - go to visit, walk, go out of town.
• At least occasionally move with a laptop in a cafe or coworking - changing entourage usually goes to the benefit of efficiency.
• Identify the only place in the house that will be considered a worker. By docking a kitchen table or examining reports in bed, you risk jeopardizing the balance between work and leisure, business activity and personal life, and this is the way to neuroses and depression.
• Tune in to the working mood by making a morning walk: with a dog in the park or with an eco-bag on the local market, firstly, it's a sin not to breathe air and not buy something fresh for dinner, and secondly, there are less chances that you are all day you will stay at the monitor in a nightgown.
  

3. You're getting fat
All is logical: now you do not run behind departing buses and do not refuse a cake under sizzling glances of colleagues. A rapidly growing priest is one of the notable drawbacks of working at home: a fertile source - a refrigerator - is always at hand, there is nobody to condemn you for a generous supplement, and sandwiches at the computer affect both digestion and on the sides. There are several recommendations: first, in your daily plan, describe all the meals - three basic and several percusses. Select for each specific time and put reminders on your phone so as not to get out of the schedule. And be honest with yourself: taken between the case apple, cookies and a glass of juice together pull 300 kcal - a significant contribution to your fat bank, if you are not active enough. Secondly, the hours saved on the way to the office are logical to spend not on meditation at the TV, but on a hike to the gym. And you will be happy.

4. Do you miss
Another drawback of home-based work is the lack of communication. At some point, it seems to you that you are toiling on an uninhabited island, and friends and colleagues are lighting on the big earth. As for friends, it's a good habit to change chats to live encounters. And in order not to fall out of the professional environment and not turn into a virtual ghost, from now on you will have to constantly participate in conferences, seminars and other activities on topics of interest to you. Yes, and do not sit out in the hall, but do so that you are noticed. In a good sense of the word, of course.

5. You're in conflict
A person forced or decided to work remotely, in the eyes of some relatives, looks like a typical slob that has a lot of free time and no responsibility. Therefore, the environment and tries to upload you socially useful activities such as dry-cleaning, take your grandmother to the office and immediately carry out a general cleaning. Yes, and, of course, you must now prepare three-course dinners. Everyday.
In order not to plant relatives on their necks:

• Be adamant, for all personal requests during working hours, say "no."
• Use headphones or earplugs - they will help not delve into the family's affairs in the labor noon.
• Do not get involved in discussions about your workplace. Attempts to show that you are a modern person and you plow as much as others do not lead to anything if your mother-in-law has an opinion on this matter; better say that you do not intend to discuss this issue, and do not discuss it.
• In case the husband persistently persuades him, call him during working hours and puzzle him with some urgent everyday problem. There is a chance that, once in your skin, he will be more delicate in the future.

Remote work - yours or not?
You are ideally suited for remote work if:

1. Communication with colleagues or superiors is perceived as a tedious duty.
2. It's hard for you to concentrate, when there are extraneous conversations around, the phone rings, people come and go.
3. You are more of an individualist, loving to fully and alone answer for the result of your work.
4. You work most productively in the second half of the day.
5. You need special conditions of work-let's say you need a diet that is problematic in the office.
6. You study or raise a child and you can work only at certain hours.
   

Your choice is freelancing if:

1. You have a lot of ideas on how to properly submit yourself.
2. You are by nature an independent person and do not fit very readily into the corporate hierarchy.
3. Avrily, burning terms and night vigils - you are morally ready for such difficulties.
4. You have a very creative beginning.
5. You have a flexible, lively mindset that allows you to easily adapt to the new.
   

You urgently need to go to the office if:

1. You work more productively in a team than alone.
2. You are attuned to a career and you expect to have a subordinate soon.
3. You have difficulty with the independent planning of time, but without difficulty you obey the general order.
4. You are stimulated by corporate culture.
5. You are a pronounced extrovert and do not think of yourself in an information vacuum.
   

So, working at home is a special genre to which you have to adapt. And yet it brings a lot of dividends. First, with a successful scenario, you become a time management monster and you manage to do as much as you did before and not dream about it. Secondly, you are much more of your own self and you choose how much and when to work. And finally, you become much more responsible and strong professionally, because from now on there is no one to write off your mistakes. And this experience is worth a lot.