[Colorado-Talk] Working from home

[Duncan Larsen]

Thank you, Peggy. These are great tips!

Hope you are staying warm and healthy!

Duncan

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On Mar 21, 2020, at 2:56 PM, Peggy Chong via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:


Tips for working at home.

I have been working from home on a full-time basis as the Blind History Lady for many years now.  Here are a few suggestions for some of you now faced with working from home for the first time.

I find it is easy to be distracted with daily life.  I try to follow these rules that I have for myself.  I hope they help some of you.

1.  Find a dedicated space.  NOT THE DINING ROOM TABLE!
2.  Set a regular schedule.  IF you think you will be going for groceries or doing laundry, try to do it outside of your work time or adjust your work schedule to make up for the time you “take-off time” during what was your regular work schedule.  Remember, you now have extra time as you don’t need to catch the bus or car pool.
3.Make your lunches ahead of time as if you were going to work.  This means you can stick to a half hour lunch break.
4. Set a timer to go off once an hour for a short two-minute walk around the house, or make it a habit of standing when you are talking on the phone.  This helps from getting a tired back side.
5.  Make sure you are included on the phone if others are at the work site.  Be aggressive, insisting a phone link.  There are many reasons for this, even if for your own connection to friends at work.
6.  If work is slow, don’t change your work schedule.  Take time to enhance your skills with your computer software, writing and reading braille to build up your speed, download books that are work related and read them during slow time in your work hours. If you can read them with a braille display, all the better.  Anything that will enhance your job performance.
7.  If you have children that will distract you during work, make a schedule for them of things to do that will “help” you such as cleaning out your desk drawer, looking up a subject on line like homework to share later, read to you a magazine or newspaper article, (age appropriate) or set up a table near you with color books and craft items giving them a time slot to finish projects to share at the end of the day.  That means setting a “share time” for all of you.

Good Luck.




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