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That's a matter of habit. The trigger before was space. "I am in the office - work mode on". In WFH the trigger has to be time. We have a hard 9AM start policy
by papito 6y ago
That's a matter of habit. The trigger before was space. "I am in the office - work mode on".
In WFH the trigger has to be time. We have a hard 9AM start policy, with 12 to 1PM lunch. That puts everyone on the same page and gets rid of the ambiguous "I wonder if anyone else is looking for me right now, and should I be working". You should absolutely know. If people don't respect it, it's their problem, but you should not be responding to people at 7AM or 9PM unless the sky is falling. No different from how it was before. This lack of boundaries is what really exhausts people.
Also, create a separate account on your computer for work. You should do that anyway to avoid screen share mishaps (no one wants to see your personal bookmarks and history).
At end of day, log out, killing slack notifications and email, and log into your work-free personal account. You are done for the day.
- mjevans 6y agoI don't have a home _office_, an actual area dedicated to doing just work stuff, with hardware dedicated only for work stuff. Working remotely probably should include that.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoI have a personal desk with two monitors and a laptop arm... I set up my desk with a KVM (just a USB switcher) for the keyboard and mouse and two HDMI switchers. Three clicks and all of my IO is routed to the work laptop and that allows me to separate cleanly from work. Before work-mode is engaged, I put my Windows workstation to sleep and I bring it out of sleep right after switching all of my IO back.