Working from home has remained a reality for many of us since 2020, even if you are working within a hybrid routine, between home, a coffee shop and an office. For those days spent working either at places, it is important to maintain a healthy routine and stay on top of your wellness to make sure you are able to achieve optimum work efficacy and productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this post, we relook at some ways to optimise your setup at home and help create a healthy routine between your home and the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all look at multiple screens for hours a day, which can cause a build-up of screen time which causes a lot of strain and exhaustion to your eyes and head. In order to help this, we need to take periodic breaks from looking at a screen. The key is to be cognizant of what we do beyond looking at our computer or laptop, such as during lunch or when we take a break. Instead of scrolling through Instagram, rather spend that time away from a screen: it just takes a bit of effort to start doing another activity, as picking up your phone is second nature to us. Read a page from a book or take a short walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Something that can be overlooked as a factor in your day-to-day work routine is the importance of good seating: a bad chair is one of the main reasons why we experience aches and pains, particularly in our shoulders, lower back and neck. Proper and practical seating is extremely vital for good posture. We need to assure our work surface and chair are at optimal heights, and this will vary from person to person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As much as we can rely on tips like these can help us, they only really manifest in routine and structure. We all have varying circumstances at home, with some of us living with partners, family, pets or children. Creating a separate space for your work within your home environment would help exponentially to establish a healthy disconnection from your work and downtime routine. It is something worth thinking about, as our daily structure impacts our emotional state too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Something which we need to pay extra attention to is stress. Stress can be increased by feeling out of control or not having enough time to get work done. What can make this worse, is the work day flowing into the evening and one not taking proper off-screen time and relaxation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is important to find ways that suit you in de-stressing, stress reduction tools like meditation apps can help you manage daily stress, breathe, and maintain calm. To emphasise an earlier point, prioritising and integrating movement, stretching and breaks during the day is also key to maintaining an efficient workflow balance. Ultimately, trying to keep up with all our lives returning to the relatively same pace as pre-Covid times can be daunting and exhausting – the best we can do is be conscious of our wellness and well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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In this post, we relook at some ways to optimise your setup at home and help create a healthy routine between your home and the office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"yoast_head":"\n