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Mental Wellness While Working From Home
Working from home aka remote work is now more common than ever. So, as many of us transition into it, we realise that there is a significant change in our lifestyle. The increased isolation which blurred the lines of work and home life while being productive can be daunting, which in turn, affects our mental wellbeing.
As a result, there are stories about some people experiencing burnouts, overworking, stress and loneliness.
But how do we cope? With remote work increasingly becoming the norm, it is important to deal with any issue of mental health well being. Here are some tips to successfully work from home!
5 Tips to Well-Being During Remote Work
1. Taking Breaks
Breaks are important while remote working. By getting up for a quick walk around the house, a quick snack or social break, we can overcome the pressures of datelines, meetings and transition. As people create their own work schedule during remote work, they tend to overwhelm it, resulting in less time to rest. By incorporating breaks into the schedules and sticking to it, you can freshen up your mind, alleviating the stress.
Breaks can be anything, from grocery shopping, a short walk, scrolling through social media or raiding the fridge for snacks. As long as it takes your mind off work for the moment allowing you to readjust and refresh.
2. Get Moving
Move around! Taking light stretching between tasks or even a short exercise session will change the mundane workday nestled in your room. A light jog or cycle outside during breaks will loosen up your bodies, stiff from sitting at the desk the whole day.
3. Healthy Routines
Cultivating healthy routines can be useful cues, letting you know when it’s time for work. Some examples include.
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Waking up at the same time as for workdays
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Working at the same hours
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Regular routines such as showering and changing into work clothes
This puts yourself ready to work, clearly separating work from other duties in life allowing you to focus on work and not be distracted. Doing so increases productivity, allows more rest during breaks and off work as it marks the line of work-life balance that is blurred whilst working from home. The sense of clarity and boundaries will improve your mental wellness.
4. Ergonomics Matters
Getting comfortable the RIGHT way is one way to alleviate the pressures of remote working. With proper desk ergonomics, you can further reduce the stress on your bodies. Proper adjustment of the monitor height, seat height, sitting distance and lighting conditions. You can reduce the strains on your back, neck, wrists and eyes. Follow our better sitting posture checklist to set up your desk properly.
5. Staying Connected
Humans thrive on social interaction and the increased isolation from remote work reduces that chance of connecting with others. Yet, by taking social breaks, interacting during team meetings and building online relationships, you can still maintain existing relations while building new ones in the process.
By interacting more during a meeting turns a presentation into a discussion which encourages social interaction between you and your colleagues.
Scheduling social breaks in your schedule to scroll through social media or catch up on missed texts allows you to have a breather from work, maintaining built relationships and forge new ones.
These are just some tips to help maintain good mental wellness. Working from home can be daunting however, by doing it right, you might never want to work in an office ever again.
However, if you still feel overwhelmed:
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