Home office for the quarantine period

In connection with the quarantine, many employers sent their employees home to work remotely. For some of these forced domestic recluses, working from home has become stressful. Not an office, hard to concentrate. Our tips site will tell you about options for setting up a crisis home office.

The portal wrote that without which five things it is impossible to imagine a full-fledged home office. As a reminder, this is a comfy chair, table, storage areas, lighting and sockets. But such an office is set up by those who work from home all the time. And if this is a temporary measure, what to do?

In such a situation, according to the reviews of those who have already been quarantined, you can get by with just two things: a laptop or computer and a table. In addition, some even do without a table, sitting with a laptop on the couch or in an armchair in the living room. Conveniently? Of course, to put it mildly, not very.

As practice shows, finding themselves in a forced situation when they need to work from home, employees most often follow the following paths:

• Set up in the kitchen, at the dining table or breakfast table. The downside is that at least three times a day the place will have to be vacated. Plus – coffee and tea are always at hand and you can close the door (if there is one, of course).
• In the living room, at the usual dining or coffee table. Plus – there is a lot of space and the sofa is comfortable. Minus – a TV is also located here, which one of the household will certainly want to turn on.

Important! During the quarantine period, all children are at home, because kindergartens and schools are closed. This is why you definitely need noise canceling headphones. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to work with noise, stomp and cartoons turned on at full volume. And with such special headphones, you can simply turn on the silence. Or listen to your favorite music if it does not distract from work.

A console table moved from the hallway to the living room can become a temporary home office for the quarantine period. And if the hallway is large enough, then you can sit right here, closing the door to the living rooms and cutting yourself off from the noise.

Another way out is a dressing table, which is often installed in the bedroom. This living room most often has an interior door, you can also close and put your laptop on the table, removing makeup and a mirror.

An interesting option is to sit on the upper tier of a baby bed. You will need a comfortable laptop stand and you can edit texts, check mail, while watching the children play below.

If you need to talk to someone about work without noise and prying ears, forced remote employees most often do this:

• They go to another room, expelling everyone from there.
• They retire in the only room of the house where there is definitely a door – in the bathroom.
• Includes a “blur background” feature on Skype. In this mode, during a video conference, only the user’s face is shown, the background around is blurred. And no one sees what a mess is going on with a colleague or subordinate at home..

In European countries, due to quarantine, the expression “WHF mode” from the English working from home has already appeared. It is difficult, especially if there was no such experience before. In addition, if both adult family members temporarily work from home, they have to share space not only with the children, but also among themselves. And the space in the apartment is not enough. You can share a spacious dining table or alternate working hours – usually no one adheres to a strict office schedule at home.

We are sure that you can find a corner in your apartment or house where you can work as conveniently as possible. By the way, you shouldn’t give up your office habits, because the situation is temporary. If you are used to talking on the phone while walking around your office, do so at home. Warm up at the same time. It is also worth at least roughly following the usual work schedule. A nice bonus of remote work – you can wake up later, because you don’t need to go anywhere.