Working remotely online, avoiding body aches, muscle and joint pain side effects during the pandemic.
Cramps, kinks, knots. Body health issues thanks to the coronavirus adjustment stress to living and working closer to home. More folks than ever are sticking close to home.
Flocking homeward to telecommute to their online remote jobs from Maine.
But that “bring it on home” shift for safety sake can come at a high price to the body, spirit, work production.
This blog post provides tips for avoiding body aches, muscle and joint pain caused from the strain of working from home remotely online in Maine.
Tips and tricks to make a home office run smooth and efficient. There are three parts to the approach on how to work smarter not harder telecommuting to work from your Maine home.
1) Where to do your job from home
2) The actual set up to work remotely
3) Further steps to take to limit the impact to your body when you job is now done at home
First, understand the getting ready to go to work and leaving your home to mentally shift gears to be at the office daily routine is gone. Poof. Taking care of business and slaying office dragons for a highly productive day at work takes discipline from the remote online home location.
The distinction of home for pleasure, office for work is blurred. No longer black and white easy that you are here or there.
Home distractions working online remotely from where you live are bigger for those with lots of family members. When sharing too small a living space. And everyone is under foot and in each other’s way.
Discipline to report to work online remotely. When it is now from a region of your own home repurposed and dedicated to your office job. Not everyone makes the transition as easily as others from office to home office.
But it helps when you bite the bullet and retool an area of your Maine home to be for just work.
And once set up it stays that way. No shared use and tearing down or putting back up waste of time happening.
Wherever you connect and go online better have speed of thought Internet connectivity too.
Because time is money whether you are working from your Maine home or a traditional office setting. Plan your work and work your plan. You gotta have a system in the measure twice, cut once most efficient use of your time.
Older housing stock in Maine built when families were larger are ideal for work from home office spaces.
Lots of rooms for many place settings around the big kitchens with pantries and extra stairways.
Those dens, parlors, nurseries, etc that become the home office location easily.
Or the extra bedrooms can be reworked into the perfect home office area. Where you can go and shut the door. Get undivided focus that lasts for the many tasks at hand.
All those items on your work from home list of what’s on tap today or left over from yesterday to accomplish.
Many Maine homes need more than one work from home location station carved out and trotted to for the weekly paycheck or school diploma.
The wife, husband, all the kids need their corner of the house to work online remotely from the Maine home.
Internet broadband connections are especially strong in my area of Northern Maine which is one huge blessing that allows the work from home option for all in the household. Many second vacation homes on lakes and ponds are being reworked into double duty. To suddenly become the primary home up in Maine. It is a big bonus when the Internet options at the vacation property in Maine are long, strong and wall to wall. How is your working from home remotely transition going? Tell me about your back, shoulders, lower thighs or wrist handling the pain and strain of working online from home? (more…)