Name: Fortune staffers share best tips for working from home
Uploaded: 2020-03-20
Duration: 5 min 53 s
Description: It's important to stay productive... and sane.

[ MUSIC ] Right about now for many it means working from home that is the new normal .>> Just like many of you watching this do to the coronavirus chaos. I'm now working from home. It's definitely gonna be an adjustment period for many people .>> They want to go children's just voted .>> Pardon me .>> Setup [ NOISE ] Sorry. Okay, so God Wait a moment for those who don't typically work from home but are lucky enough to have the option to What is the best way to go about this? Some fellow fortune staffers from around the globe, give me some insight. My secret sauce is having good slippers and I actually have the slippers here. Not, [ INAUDIBLE ] But these are my backup slippers by my active slippers are currently on. It's not really about slippers, it's more about the point of them. You need to make sure that the little things that can irritate you on a daily basis In Your House are taken care of get the dishes done every night. Make sure the lawns water so that you don't feel drawn away from your work to go do them. A lot of people think this is gonna be terrible but Consider it your first week in a new workplace. It may wake people up to looking at their job in a fresh way. Greet people as if you were in the In the actual office, it does help with the closure of the work day. Take a real lunch, really easy to eat at your desk when your desk is your home, pick up the phone every so often because it's very, very easy to be exchanging lots and lots of text based messages. And sometimes it's just easy. I didn't realize you meant it this way. Bla bla bla bla bla And then finally wear pants. Love, It's important. Yeah. So one of the tips that is commonly shared is that you should get up and get dressed and put makeup on. And while I did put makeup on for this video, I actually don't believe in that advice. I think if you're working from home, you can save especially women who are getting ready Doing their hair. I'm saving my commuting time but I'm also saving my getting ready time. And if we're in an industry like we was where we're working through that thing, then I know that 30 minutes means a lot. For me. The big thing from working from home is to define your hours clearly because it's really easy to have that slippery slide of, well, I'm still on my computer, so I'm still active and still working. So it's really important for me to say, it is time for me to be done with the workday. Right now, I'm in my study, which is actually where I usually work. And as you can see it's kind of a messy room filled with books, and a TV, and computers and Most importantly and exercised by quiches essential these days, it would be a great thing for managers to remember that like people who are not used to working remotely or learn, kind of need to be checked in on you know, one on one by the name. Just to be made to feel that this somewhere someone out there you know is remembering them and needs them to, you know, be productive The panic. We have seen the grocery stores or like buying toilet paper and things like that was the run up to Like our tech office, not I need a cable I can function with just my small screen. What am I gonna like? It was just crazy. And I think a lot of companies are really starting to look at, you know, is this a precursor to like another Superstorm Sandy. What does each company need to do to effectively run their business? If Their primary office is unavailable for whatever reason whether that's a construction mishap major plumbing the storm. I was watching TV the other day and I heard Lieutenant General Russel Andre, who he was in charge of the government response to Hurricane Katrina. And of all the things that he saw down there, his big takeaway of what we're facing right now is that we'll discover we don't all need to go to the office anymore. I agree with him. I haven't done it for 13 years. My argument is that I bring something different to all the organizations that I've been with whether it's, a different perspective, being in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Or just being in a different time zone. I'm fascinated by how this pandemic will affect office culture. And I do hope that people are thinking about working from home anymore and they're just thinking about work wherever they are. And it should be interesting to see if that. Kind of dynamics fixed once people are allowed to return to the physical workspace, We're going to regather once we get into the office and talk about what works and what doesn't work and what's the remediation plan to make what doesn't work, fixed or better, humans are amazingly adaptable to to overcome challenges and this is In modern time, this is like the biggest challenge most of us have ever faced. This is a time which we will never forget .>> And which really has sort of challenged a lot of our assumptions about how to work, how to work in groups and things which will last I think In a much longer than, than the virus last. [ MUSIC ]

It's important to stay productive... and sane.