Separating Work From Home
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by: RachelRae
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There's a common phrase, "what happens at work stays at work, what happens at home stays at home". Not an easy thing to do, but especially for the one who's work is at home. These people have unique challenges to find balance of these two roles.
Many jobs takes at least eight hours of your day sometimes more, and that being able to share time with your family is important. Talking about it is one thing, coming home and taking it out on your family is something else.
Strategy One: Use the drive home to focus on coming home.
Granted this tip is more for people who work outside of the house, it's important none the less. However long your drive from work to home is, use that time to work through work issues somewhat and then focus on what you have to look forward to at home. Look forward to spending time with your loved ones.
Two: Come up with a Schedule
You might need to think outside of the box when you work from home. There's a tendency to put in more work hours when you work from home, simply because there's not clear boundaries of work hours. Maybe you can work after the kids have gone to bed, or early in the morning. But look at the schedule of your family and see if you can find times in their day when their needs are less and use that for work hours.
Strategy Three: Get Separate Phone lines
If you are finding that you are getting business phone calls at all hours, having a separate number for them to call can be a wonderful option. You also have the choice to making your cell phone your business phone and the home phone personal. This way when business hours are over, you can walk away and leave those calls to be picked up by an answering device. You can also separate the rings for people you know personally and business so you don't have so much cross over. Make boundaries.
Four: Make a designated place for business transactions.
Do you have an extra room that could be used exclusively for this purpose? I know it's not always possible. Perhaps you could get inexpensive room partitions to create a work area. It's important that you try to make a space so that your roles can be separate and you can walk away from it when you need to. It also helps to keep family out of your work area as well.
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