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After six months of WFH, top tips would be:
Tell co-workers that you are taking your lunch break, then they're not left thinking you're ignoring their messages / calls. Outside of an office people tend to eat at very different times.
Go outside. Very easy not to do so, especially when the weather's not great.
Noice cancelling headphones are amazing. As are external keyboards + mouse if on a laptop.
Try and have some non-work-related chat on conference calls. Not always possible but having regular human interactions with no sense of 'humanity' can get pretty soul destroying.
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After six months of WFH, top tips
These are all good tips. I put my lunch in my diary as a recurring appointment. I don't always work during that time but it means Teams says I'm busy.
I'd add set your teams or whatever to busy when you are actually busy. It will put some people off contacting you and the ones that do can be temporarily ignored. Often when I go back to them they've got the solution from someone else, or actually put their thinking cap on rather than sliding into my Teams inbox with random brain farts.
I think of it as being like the snooze function on an alarm clock. It's harder to snooze people when you're available and it's a bit like emails: every message can potentially derail your train of thought entirely.
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Yeah certainly done of this and definitely one of the net positive things about working from home — I’ve slept in toilets at work during lunch before when I’ve been really tired.
I’ve just started a new job from home - been unemployed/a student for the last year. Any suggestions? I’ve read upthread but was hoping someone might be able to add a little more now with lots of people have 7 months WFH experience