The Spring Festival holiday is over, and now many companies have begun to officially return to work. However, in view of the impact of the epidemic, many companies that can work remotely from home have chosen to let their employees work remotely from home. But for many people, there is a problem in working from home, that is, how to improve work efficiency. This article brings you a home office strategy plan. If you want to improve your work efficiency, let's have a look.
Working from home sounds beautiful, but are you ready?
1、 How to improve work efficiency when working from home?
The life of freelancers should be admired by many people. They have free working hours, can stay up late, can sleep in, don't have to catch the bus and squeeze the subway every day, and don't have to spend more energy on interpersonal relationships.
Although it's cool to work from home, in addition to comfort, you should also have strong self-control, resist all kinds of 'dynamic' and 'static' interference, and test a person's self-control. Too much interference will increase the work efficiency of 8 hours a day to 12 hours or even longer. Everyone in the workplace should wake up to this.
1) Open up a clean and tidy office area
One of the biggest features of working from home is the interference of life. You will find that there is a lot of noise in your home during the day, such as the sound of neighbors decorating their house and the sound of cars passing by on the road, which will make people crazy.
Even if there is no noise, working from home is very easy to be distracted. Pets, neighbors, express delivery, comfortable beds and even sofas will distract your attention at work. These are the temptations you need to overcome.
Most families may not have spare rooms for offices, but a clean and tidy office area is enough for people to concentrate. Spread a cold tablecloth, put a few books and put some work supplies. The key is to stay far from the bed.
If you really can't open up a work area, move the desk on the bed away. In short, keep your work area away from those things that can tempt you: TV, bed, sofa At least make sure your spirit is at work.
2) Office hours at home are synchronized with working hours at the company
People are easily affected by the environment. For those who work from home, because they can't be separated from the place of work and life, they will blur the time boundary between life and work.
Even if you work at home, you should plan the time arrangement, get up and work according to the usual working time, go to work when you should go to work, take a lunch break when you should take a lunch break, eat when you should, take a rest when you get off work, and keep your sense of rhythm.
Don't disturb the original work rhythm because you work at home for a short time. If you stay lazy according to the holiday mode, you will not only be unable to lift your spirit at work, but also it will be difficult to adjust when you officially go to work.
Therefore, when working from home during this period, it is necessary to synchronize working hours. If life and work are confused, it is difficult to balance work and life without a reasonable time planning.
3) Put on your usual work clothes
Napoleon once said:
Who you are depends on what you wear.
Everyone will have different identities on different occasions. You are comfortable when you wear pajamas at home, and you are working when you wear formal clothes in the company.
If you wear a general's clothes, your temperament, aura and your thinking mode may be completely different. It will become a general's thinking mode and aura, and even your temperament will change.
Put on the clothes you usually wear at work, your thinking logic will be clearer, and subconsciously remind yourself that I am in the office. This is a formal occasion, and I should concentrate on working hard.
4) Reasonably control the pace of work
To succeed at work, you must follow your own pace.
Are you better for a sprint or a marathon?
Sprinter:
Do a lot of work in a short time and divide the work content into several important nodes; Only a few short breaks are needed during the work period, which may take about 5 minutes every hour.
If you are a sprinter at work, dividing the work into several parts will make you easier and more efficient.
Marathoners:
Like to finish a job in one breath.
Like continuous, uninterrupted long-time work.
If you are a marathon runner at work, focusing your work on one time period will improve your work efficiency.
Some people may be the middle of these two types of work, that is, continuous work - morning, and then afternoon work is completed quickly in a short time. The way of work varies from person to person. There is no right or wrong. The key is to adapt to your own rhythm.
5) Make a to do list before starting work
When you work in the company, the surrounding environment can make you clear what you want to do today, but when you are at home, without the supervision of leaders and the reminder of colleagues, it is easy to delay the next work and even forget some work that is easy to be ignored.
Before starting work every day, make a to do list with a note or desktop calendar, put it in a conspicuous place, and pay attention to your work tasks of the day at any time.
In this regard, it should be noted that try to write it down on paper and electronic equipment. Don't rely on your brain. As the saying goes, "a good memory is better than a bad pen." Such a list is also conducive to the decomposition and quantification of work tasks, which is easier to implement.
6) Communicate with colleagues as much as possible
Whether we work from home or in the company, we need to let everyone know what you are dealing with, what you are dealing with, and pay close attention to the progress of the work.
For home office workers, maintaining work communication with colleagues is a great secret to improve work efficiency. They should reply to work messages as soon as possible and hold regular teleconferences. If you use social tools, remember to stay online. If you leave briefly, indicate when you will come back.
Finally, after completing the work every day, count the work content you have completed today and what effect it has produced. Sort out a work daily and share it with colleagues and leaders of the Department. While reporting the work, it also makes others feel that you are a reliable person.
7) Focus, stay focused
Whether it's time to rest during the day or time to work hard, it's important to stay focused.
Some people divide the day's work into several parts, and arrange rest time between each part. During the rest, focus on rest and reduce thinking at work. You can read books, drink coffee and play with your mobile phone, but you should always pay attention to your time.
However, taking a day apart is not suitable for everyone. Some people prefer to work five or six hours in a row before doing chores. In the art of finishing, I put forward a point: concentrate only two hours a day and try to focus on the morning. To increase the 'texture' of time, the concentration increases and the output increases.
No matter which method, whether you work from home or not, you can try it, concentrate and stay focused.
Many people on duty will mistakenly think that 'working at home' is a sign of laziness. But this is not the case. Working from home requires more self-discipline to be efficient. According to the "working mind method" of working from home, the key is to improve work efficiency while maintaining energy and enhance your core competitiveness.
2、 What else can you do when you work from home
Working from home, on the premise of ensuring efficiency and energy, in fact, you can spare more time, such as commuting time to and from work. You can examine the current situation and plan your future.
So, in this extraordinary period of working from home, how to plan your next plan?
1) Calm down and reassess your abilities
'if the company downsized, would you be the first to appear on the list?'
Competence refers to the deep-seated characteristics of individuals who can distinguish the outstanding achievers from the ordinary ones in a job. It can be analyzed from the aspects of strategic thinking, professional level, personal effectiveness, professional ethics and executive ability.
3、 The following is a self-assessment checklist on how to improve your competence:
1) Are you worthy of the salary given by the company?
2) Do you have excellent performance in the team?
3) Can you win everyone's respect through your professional level?
4) Do you have enough professional ethics and self-cultivation?
5) Can you create profits for the company with your own ability?
6) Is the task always completed within the required time?
2) Use the saved commute time to develop hobbies
In the first tier cities, the average commuting time of office workers is nearly one hour. Working from home means that commuting, the most time-consuming link, is reduced throughout the work process.
Telecommuters can do what they like, accompany their families, exercise and develop personal hobbies. " 'no time' is no longer an excuse for being too lazy to start. Making a delicious meal for yourself, making a small gift for a friend, calming down to draw a picture and so on can all become a filler for spare time.
Use your commuting time to enrich yourself. When you get back to work, you may be the brightest star in the office.
3) Enhance professional ability and maintain core competitiveness
At any time, if you want to avoid the fate of being eliminated and forgotten, you must maintain your core competitiveness, whether for your professional ability in your own industry or other cross-border capabilities. There is an image metaphor called 'T-type talents'.
'-' indicates extensive knowledge and '|' indicates depth of knowledge.
Of course, while deeply learning their professional knowledge, they should also learn some other knowledge to maintain their core competitiveness. From point to line, from line to surface, gradually expand their scope of knowledge. When preparing for the next project or changing jobs, you can ask yourself: why can I stand out and strive to be irreplaceable.