How To Optimize Your Work From Home Area

Home Workspace Tips: Feel Relaxed and Efficient

In the times of COVID-19, having a home office is not the rare occurrence or luxury feature it used to be. In fact, depending on the size and layout of your house, and the type of work you need to do, it may not feel luxurious at all. It can be all too easy to throw a computer onto any available surface and pull up a folding chair, thinking that the quality of your work environment doesn’t matter. This, however, is a huge mistake. When you’re spending eight or more hours a day sitting in and staring at a certain space, you want to make the most of it. Follow these tips for optimizing your home office/work-from-home area and you will be sure to notice benefits to your efficiency, comfort, and mental wellbeing.

• Choose the Right Space: A lot of factors go into determining where you will be able to be the most productive. Maybe you have a room that offers plenty of natural light, but the Wi-Fi signal doesn’t come through strongly enough. Are you concerned about being distracted by children or pets? If they require supervision, on the other hand, you will need to coordinate areas of the house around that.

• Focus on Ergonomics: The pandemic and its work-from-home mandates may have caught you off guard without a quality office chair or standing desk at the ready. It’s important to arrange your workstation so that you can operate your computer, phone, and other instruments without hunching over. This may involve propping things up on books or boxes in order to get them to the right height.

• Don’t Ignore Decorations: Back in the spring, working from home probably seemed like merely a temporary solution, yet here we still are. Hopefully, at some point you took the time to make your work area your own, filling it with pictures of loved ones, motivational queues, and other splashes of personality. Our jobs are large parts of our lives, and feeling happy and fulfilled to show up to the “office” every day makes a big difference.