HOW TO WORK

Thedevelopment of our environment is very important for our well-being in telework:

  • It helps to create a bubble dedicated to our professional moment and to draw a clear and beneficial separation with our private space
  • It relieves our bodies and eliminates the threat of MSDs1
  • It determines our effectiveness in completing the to-do list that we have set ourselves with serenity

The rest of our series of tips so that telework can for a few more weeks rhyme with well-being at work…

Being well in your telecommuting space

Both of us settle into telework. It’s time to consider whether the furniture we assign to our space is appropriate.

We wisely banished the bed, sofa or couch. Adopting a professional work attitude is the condition for keeping the distance.

So we sit on a seat at a table to work. Here are the things we can play to optimize our quality of life at work. This is called ergonomics.

YOUR SEAT

You probably didn’t have the leisure to take your office seatwith you.

However, choose the seat closest to your interior:

  • With a folder
  • With a padded seat
  • With armrests

Accompany this seat with a footr rest that will make your work position easier while reducing the feeling of discomfort or fatigue.

The seat is only part of the answer to the demand for well-being at work. The way you occupy it obviously counts to protect you from MSDs.

What is important is to change your position regularly,depending on whether you:

  • Write
  • Call
  • Think

The good news for your comfort is that there’s one thing you can do at home and not at the office: it’s changing seats regularly by running the resources of the house!

YOUR WORK TABLE

Choose as an office preferably a table large enough to house all of your work equipment during the time you tele-work.

The large dining room table is obviously a tempting choice. You’ll have room if you like to spread out.

You can even share it, by booking a common space elsewhere in the accommodation to make calls. Like in the office if you’re in open space.

The downside, of course, is having to get rid of it at family meals. At the same time, it’s the moment when you’re on a break and offline, right?

The absolute advice is in any case to reserve at your time of telework a clean and clear table.

YOUR LIGHTING

The third component of your telecommuting well-being is light! Natural, coming from a window, it’s ideal.

Careful:

  • From the front, you may be dazzled in fine weather
  • From the back, it’s the reading of your screen that may be prevented

If you need to install a lamp,take it strong enough to distinguish what needs to be, but not too much to not tire your eyes.

Be effective in your telecommuting environment

You didn’t take your chair but you had to take your computer with you. Don’t worry about that, so.

On the other hand, the connection may be worth a little boost to be adapted to the requirements of your mission. Especially if your home is transformed into a co-working space, where parents and children all have a great reason to need bandwidth!

Accessories are available to make telecommuting easier. Some are even almost essential in the context of prolonged confinement:

Be quiet in your telework cocoon

If you have a room to dedicate telework, the question of your isolation and tranquillity obviously does not arise much.

If this is not the case and you still want to invest a fixed space that you do not disassemble every noon and every night, you are not forbidden to give it a personality.

To isolate it first and turn it into a cocoon of telework, which one invests to be calm and focused but that one leaves at the end of his day, here are some tips:

  • Green plants
  • A screen
  • A piece of furniture halfway up or the back of a sofa

To create a working atmosphere: Photo frames… work

In conclusion, the layout of your workspace at home relies above all on your comfort to improve your quality of life in telework and thus your productivity. Don’t neglect him!