Your host today is Liam Clisham. Today's topic is Working From Home.
OPENING TOPICS:
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MAIN DISCUSSION:
Pros of Working from Home
Depending on your job, you may be gaining flexibility with you schedule
Make a schedule for yourself
Parents: this is huge. My wife made a schedule breaking down every hour to a couple of hours. Breakfast, physical activities, educational time, video game time. Kids really need structure (and like it or not, adults do too).
Try to get in a physical activity. Hard with gym closures. Go for a walk that isn't around people. Lots of free Youtube fitness content.
Probably are going to work faster as long as you have boundaries set up with your family/roommates/etc.
Don't have to go to meetings that don't matter. You don't have to talk to Karen about how she couldn't find TP at Wal-Mart so she killed the store manager.
Cons of Working from Home
If your family is home with you, it can be hard to set boundaries. Find a place for yourself and declare it your office. When you are in there, you need to be left alone to work.
Isolation. Why we have these calls. It can get super depressing at times.
Sticking to a schedule, especially if you're freelance.
Favorite WFH Software
Toggl for tracking time
Paper and Pencil
Notion for all kinds of management. Life, projects, personal wikis, and more.
Slack for communication
Monday for project management
Zoom for video communication
Splashtop / Team Viewer / Chrome Remote Desktop for remote access to computers
Media Shuttle for enterprise file transfer
https://www.resilio.com/ for small business file transfer
Smart Plugs to restart computers if you're out of the office
Focus Mate to have an accountability buddy while working
Google Suite
Frame.io for feedback and file sharing
Trello for project management
Instagant for project tracking and management
TeuxDeux for tasks
Hacks
Bundling your schedule
Pomodoro Technique
Daily Call?