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My Top Tips For Increasing Productivity When Working From Home<\/h2>\n
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1. Set your working hours \u2013<\/h3>\n
Avoid mixing work with family life or playtime, it\u2019s not a good idea. That\u2019s one of the biggest mistakes I made when I first started working from home and I can tell you that not only will you become unproductive, but family should always come first and mixing the two can have a detrimental effect on the quality of the time you spend with family and the quality and output of your work. Ensure you set your hours for work and within those hours do nothing else but work, at the same time when you\u2019re spending time with family and friends, don\u2019t take your work with you.<\/p>\n
Tip:<\/strong> A Bengaluru-based Amazon seller shifted from chaotic all-day work to fixed 9 am\u20133 pm \u201cdeep work\u201d sessions. Revenue increased because they finally had uninterrupted time to optimize listings, reducing refund rates by 22%.<\/p>\n Another big NO when working from home is having distractions in the background, such as the TV on, the radio blaring, iPhone going off every few minutes when you get a Facebook notification or text message. Turn off all these distractions, they only consume your time and decrease productivity.<\/p>\n Tip:<\/strong> A Mumbai social media manager installed website blockers for Instagram and YouTube during work hours. She reduced screen distractions by 60% and delivered campaigns ahead of schedule for the first time in 6 months.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re like me and do most of your work online, then try and only use the internet when you need it, otherwise restrict your access to it. The only time I\u2019m online is when I\u2019m publishing, communicating or researching. The internet can provide you with great productivity tools, but be careful not to be distracted too often by them.<\/p>\n Tip:<\/strong> A YouTuber in Noida started drafting scripts offline in Google Docs rather than browsing for \u201cinspiration.\u201d He cut research time from 6 hours to 2 hours per video and increased upload frequency from weekly to twice per week.<\/p>\n Ensure that your friends and families are aware of the hours you work from home, so that they know not to disturb you during that time. Otherwise you can lock the doors, draw the curtains and take the phone off the hook\u2026 Only kidding\u2026<\/p>\n Tip:<\/strong> A freelance designer created a WhatsApp autoresponder that said: \u201cWorking now. I\u2019ll reply at 6 pm.\u201d Clients respected boundaries, meetings reduced drastically, and he reclaimed 25 productive hours per month.<\/p>\n Having your laptop in bed or sat in Starbucks with your iPad is not the best method of increasing productivity when working from home! You might see similar images on the internet that falsely represent what working from home is all about, but I can tell you it\u2019s nothing like that at all. So my tip for you is to find your little place of Zen within your home and make it your regular place of work.<\/p>\n
\n2. Turn off distractions \u2013<\/h3>\n
\n3. Get offline \u2013<\/h3>\n
\n4. Make yourself unavailable \u2013<\/h3>\n
\n5. Find your work space \u2013<\/h2>\n