Some of us are used to working from home and in many cases, this has been a personal choice. But even for those used to it, this enforced isolation is tough to deal with.
Throw in home schooling kids and increased financial stresses and you have a potentially damaging position for your mental wellbeing.
For those who are working from home for the first time, the stresses are exaggerated. Add in a lack of time structure, regular breaks, inactivity, distraction, anxiety and lack of interaction and you are closer to their reality. For some, this won’t feel like working from home, but working alone.
Our friends at SAMH have put together some useful tips for those struggling to adapt to home working and I’m happy to share those here.
In essence, working from home successfully is all about creating structure. Physically distancing the working space may not always be practical but some degree of separation is needed.
Work to set time periods, give yourself breaks and try and get some much needed exercise. This is going to be a marathon rather than a sprint but it’s not one that you have to run alone
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