5-Ways-To-Improve-Your-Home-Office-For-Productivity-And-Happiness
I don’t know about you, but I’m frankly getting a little bit sick of the four walls of my home office. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very grateful that I have the opportunity to work from home, but sometimes it can feel pretty monotonous.
But, I can’t be alone in feeling a little burned out on working from home and the day-to-day of waking up mere feet from where I sit working everyday.
We’ve finally passed the one-year mark of when many of us left our usual places of work to become “temporarily” remote. I remember in one of my first Zoom hangouts, a good friend said somberly that she didn’t think we would be heading back to the office until at the earliest July. We all scoffed and called her a pessimist. Oh, to be so naive again.
I’m so grateful that things are improving with cases dropping and vaccines being deployed, but for many of us, that may not mean a return to the office. At least, things won’t be exactly as they were. Many may find their employers encourage them to stay remote, or that their offices have transitioned to a hybrid model.
For many, a “hybrid model,” with some time spent working remotely and some time in the office, might be the best of both worlds. As study from last May found that 55% of workers would prefer a hybrid model. Company leaders also expect it to become the norm, with 80% believing that many workers will stay remote at least one day a week, even after the end of the pandemic.
Whether you expect you’ll stay fully remote, or you will transition to a hybrid model, one thing is for sure, you’re probably going to get some more use out of that home office.
So, don’t you think it might be time to spruce it up a little bit? After all, you owe it to yourself, especially after a hard year of remote work, to treat yourself to some quality-of-life and quality-of-work upgrades
Your company may even treat you; during the beginning of the pandemic, 1 in 5 companies in the U.S. were helping pay for their staff’s home-office needs, with some tech companies offering up to a $1000 stipend. If your company hasn’t caught up to this trend, be patient — with so many workers now fully remote, it is likely to become the norm.
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