India has been on\na lockdown since mid-March 2020, given the onset and tough-to-control novel\ncoronavirus outbreak, and we are not alone \u2013 the world is suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given this, while\nthe biggest tragedy being suffered is infection and loss of human lives,\neconomies are parallely suffering owing to lockdowns till situations are under\ncontrol and there are better measures put in place. Quite some businesses who\ncannot do without mechanical interventions are suffering on a daily basis owing\nto shortage of manpower, thereby generating deficit produce. Service firms too\nare suffering owing to shortage in staff and piling up of customer\nrequirements, if not complaints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The but-obvious\nand quickest rebound that corporate India swung to, is operating remotely\nthrough isolation of it\u2019s employees and making do with distancing and\ncoordinating with coworkers. But is this anywhere close to the productivity\nlevels of the recent past? Obviously not. How do we bridge the gap? Well, here\nare some tips for all of you who are working from home and need to coordinate\nliterally with several stakeholders in your organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fix up a schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Working out of\noffice and home is not the same thing. At home, you have members of your family\nand if few of these happen to be young kids (or similarly demanding), then I\u2019m\nsure working from home poses a substantial challenge. First things first,\nidentify time periods when you can have focus on work and nothing else \u2013 this\ncould be 2-3 hours at a stretch. Early morning hours from 6:00am \u2013 7:00am\nonwards has helped quite some. Even, post lunch hours when the elders of the\nfamily typically rest and kids can be occupied with indoor games or reading or\nTV is another slot where you can get atleast 2 hours at a stretch. For quite\nsome of those, whose work is dependent on another unit\u2019s output, late evening\nand night hours also can prove to be more productive. Test some of these\nsuggestions and see how you fare and finally firm up a schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fix your workstation and ambience (of\nsorts)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Getting your\nenvironment right is another element you would need to fix, to be more\nproductive. Some of you would prefer to have no noise and work in isolation\nlike you would do at work (esp. if you sat in cabins for most of the day);\nhowever, quite some of our workplaces are fairly abuzz with people noise \u2013\nsomeone asking a query, or cracking a joke, or sharing a shopping experience,\nor asking you out for a tea break\u2026.. now suddenly, working in isolation from\nhome discounts all of these and a discomfort or anxiety seeps in. You need to\ntake constructive steps towards fixing this up \u2013 couple of things you could do\nare \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n Identify & curb waste habits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When constrained\nto work in an isolated fashion, it is but natural for humans to stray away and\ndo things like \u2013 google searches, online (window) shopping, online gaming,\nconstant news\/stock market checking, and the likes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Be quick to\nidentify your work procrastinators, because these eventually build into big\ntime killers and become addictive in nature. Schedule time for online passion\/habits\nseparately outside the work-window, in order to ensure that work doesn\u2019t get\nimpacted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The above tips\nshould help you settle down quick in a work from home\/isolation scenario. We\nwill share further tips in our next article. Do revisit us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India has been on a lockdown since mid-March 2020, given the onset and tough-to-control novel coronavirus outbreak, and we are not alone \u2013 the world…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behavior","category-productivity","tag-efficiency","tag-productivity","tag-self-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/execorespectrum.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}