Stress busting tips for home-based workers

Posted on | February 1, 2012 | No Comments

Getting stressed by work can be very tiring and has a direct impact on your productivity as well as how you feel about your job. When you are in a position that allows you to work from home, you may find that people envy you and assume that working from your own home is a great experience. You get to pick your own hours and work in your pyjamas; what more could you want form a job? More often than not, this is the case but as soon as you start to notice the first signs of stress, it can be a very isolating experience. Being stressed has a negative effect on your health and here are three tips to keeping healthy and happy when your office and your home are the same place!

It is difficult to control outside stressors, but you need to take a holistic approach to employee well-being. To manage work related stress effectively, you need to recognise the importance and interaction of work and home problems. The person loses out – as do their family and their employer. It becomes a vicious circle.

Interaction is vital

One of the benefits of working in a busy office environment is that there are always people around you. If you pop to the kitchen for a coffee and a stretch of the legs, chances are you will bump into someone you can have a quick chat with. Whether its general chit chat about the weather or a bit of advice about a project you are working on, it’s good to talk. Even regular meetings with your boss are reassuring and show you you’re on the right track.
When you work from home, there can be little or no interaction and it’s certainly harder to make a decision without any input from your colleagues. A great idea is to set a certain amount of time a day/week and allow yourself to communicate with others. This might just be having your lunch out of the house or talking to ex colleagues via Skype and running ideas past them. The more you communicate with others, the more you’ll probably appreciate a bit of alone time.

Look after yourself

When your office is in your home, there is often a temptation to get up and check your emails straight away. Then before you realise it, its lunch time and you are still sat in your Pyjamas and you missed breakfast. It’s also not uncommon for people to eat at their desk at lunch or completely work through it and skip lunch too. This often means you have a lack of energy and find it harder to concentrate. You should be taking advantage of the fact that you have a whole kitchen to prepare a healthy meal and you’re only options aren’t a sandwich or limp salad. It’s also important to keep hydrated so keep a bottle of water by your desk and sip it as often as you remember.

Schedule working hours that suit you

Trying to match the usual office hours when working from home is often not advised. Even five to six hours in one go is not a good idea. Our ability to concentrate fully for this amount of time is limited and so why not try a few different schedules and see which you feel works best for you. If you can create a work pattern that suits you and that makes you the most productive, you can eventually achieve the working from home dream of working less hours a week but being much more productive with the time you do spend working

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Posted on | January 4, 2010 | No Comments

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Posted on | January 3, 2010 | 3 Comments

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Posted on | December 6, 2009 | 4 Comments

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Posted on | November 26, 2009 | No Comments

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