10 Top Tips for Working Remotely.

There will be many of you out there now being asked to work from home as are the majority of us here at CDM. Working from home can be very appealing to most people, however it can have it’s draw backs depending on your circumstances and your mind set. For example, you may find yourself juggling three roles all at once. Job, Teacher & Parent, tough right? But who are we to complain when we’re making a collective national effort to keep our loved ones safe and well and rightly so!

So, we wanted to share some of the top tips that we at CDM are following to make our working from home a positive and effective experience.   

10 Top tips for working remotely

1. Set up a designated workspace. Separate space for yourself to work in, somewhere you can focus on tasks without being distracted and set up with everything you need for a normal working day – computer, phone, stationery, papers…etc.

2. Make sure you have all the tech you need. This includes a reliable and secure internet connection, any necessary files, hardware and software, remote access to your company network and, importantly, knowledge of how to get IT support.

3. Get dressed. Changing into working clothes will help you mentally switch to productive work mode. It will also help you distinguish between ‘homeworking’ and ‘home life’.

4. Write a daily to-do list. Set out a list of realistic, achievable tasks to keep you focused.

5. Know when to step away from your desk. Be clear about when your working day begins and ends and take breaks to refresh. It’s easy to let yourself be ‘always on’ when your home and office are the same place. When work is over, be sure you switch off to avoid burnout. Think about having ‘core hours’ which people you work with are around for.

6. Stay in conversation. Contribute regularly to team chats/group emails so you don’t drop off the radar. Ask about what people are working on and share what’s on your plate. Being physically separated means you miss the ‘water-cooler moments’ so this is a means to keep informed.

7. Foster relationships. Make time for non-work chats as you would in the workplace and use video calling to maintain face-to-face contact.

8. Be clear in your communication. Speaking in person gives you visual and audio cues that help you communicate. Conversing remotely removes a lot of that extra information so make your communications extra clear and concise.

9. Ask for support when needed. Speak out when you need assistance, further training or support. Your manager, colleagues and you are part of a team and should be supporting each other, especially remotely.

10. Make remote working work for you. Change where you sit, put on music, whatever helps you work. And enjoy the perks – no commute or uncomfortable shoes, and all your home comforts!

Worthy to note, you still need to be more vigilant around cyber and IT security. 

Fraudsters are more likely to target vulnerable people/businesses in these challenging times, so we need to ensure we are all extra cautious of scam/phishing emails, as well as maintaining the same high level of GDPR IT security and processes at home, as you would in the working environment!

It’s more important now than ever to remain positive and together we will beat the coronavirus. Stay safe everyone and we’ll see you on the other side!

Working from home and making it work.

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