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How To Make Your Home Office A Productive Space

Posted on June 5, 2017 by ben

One of the toughest things about working from your home office is keeping yourself motivated. Without a boss looking over your shoulder to make sure you get things done, you’re more likely to take longer and more frequent breaks, there are more distractions, and your productivity will significantly decline. To prevent this from happening, you need to act as though you’re still going into the office for work. Set yourself some office hours and stick to them, dress like you’re going to work, and have a room in your house where you do your job. Once you have the perfect room in mind, here are a few suggestions to make it a productive space.

Make It Comfortable

Since you’re sticking to traditional office hours, you’re going to be spending at least eight hours a day sitting at your desk in your home office. In which case, you need to take precautions against back pain, fatigue, and eye strain.home office chair

You can do this by getting an ergonomic office chair from Crossford as these provide the necessary lumbar and pelvic support to promote healthy posture.

Good spinal alignment leads to reduced headaches, back pain, and it can significantly improve breathing, concentration, and endurance through long hours of seated task work. You should also reduce eye strain by taking a break every twenty minutes. This will go a long way to reducing headaches and fatigue.

Make It Inspiring

If you’ve ever had to work in an office that’s dull, lifeless, and badly lit, you’ll recall that your overall productivity suffered during your tenure in said workplace. When you set up your home office, consider adding some creative touches. Make this quiet room entirely your own by painting it a color you love. Make sure your office has enough natural light coming through, as well as a well-lit lamp. For some people, subtle scents can soothe the stress of thought blockages and procrastination, resulting in increased focus.

Make It Tidy

No matter where you work, paperwork has a habit of piling up. Have a good filing system in place so that you know where everything needs to go, and which documents you can afford to shred. If your office is too small for an elaborate filing cabinet, put up some shelves and store your documents in binders. Going paperless might also be a good idea to keep the paperwork from piling up. You should also fight off anyone who wants to use your office as temporary storage for boxes of clutter. This is your space; don’t let anyone else encroach on it.

Make It Modern

Technology is the best colleague all remote workers can have, because it can make make everything run more efficiently; that is, if it works. With most remote jobs, all you really need is a laptop and good wifi. If your wifi keeps stopping, or your laptop breaks down too often, you need to look into sorting out the problem. The last thing you need is to miss an important deadline because your technology kept malfunctioning.

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