6 Tips to Keep Your Physical Mental Health When Working From Home

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Do you work from home, or wish to do so?

It sounds amazing you don’t have to get up early to get the office in time every morning. However, studies show that working from home can harm your mental health. If you are working form home, use these tips to keep you healthy mentally and physically.

Create an office space

By making a place designated only for work at your place, you can focus on your work and don’t have to get bothered by work when doing personal stuff. As if you go to the office, create an office place with a desk and a nice chair.

Set up the regular hours

You may think you can start and working anytime if you work from home. However, it is not good to lose the boundary of professional and personal life. Just like you set up an office space, set up the regular hours you work, to avoid your work’s interfering your life too much.

Get Ready

What you wear affects the mood. If you don’t shower or change, you won’t be able to get out of the relax mode, when you have to work. To improve the productivity, get ready before you head to your office space in home.

Set a timer

It is never good to lose the sense of time when working at home. You forget to take rests, or you could spend too much time on one task. By setting a timer, you get reminded to stand up and to get refreshed. Try to do this at least once an hour.

Schedule workout

Working from home has an advantage of flexible hours, but people tend to forget to control their time. Like setting the regular working hours and using a timer helps, scheduled workout will be helpful to keep you healthy and to improve productivity.

Go outside once a day

Never forget to go outside everyday. By staying at home all day, you can get depressed and not feel like doing anything. Working from home is an great opportunity to spend time outside the regular work environment.

Do you think working from home is good or bad?

This working style fits some people, but not for everyone. Understanding the pros and cons of working from home is the key to maintain your physical and mental health and to work efficiently.