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Remote Working Part 2 – Staying focused and maintaining concentration
By plrprousers | August 12, 2009
The top reason members of both sexes fail to adjust to operating remotely is they don’t realise the neccesity of high-quality organisation and rigid self discipline.
I have been working remotely for almost a decade since I first uncovered Quickbooks online an ‘on demand’ small business accounting software web application and was amazed by the fact that if you can perform accounting on the net then why shouldn’t it be viable to perform other important types of work at a distance?
Whilst working remotely has numerous upsides there are numerous traps that people easily fall into which evolve into issues that cause reduced work output and lower motivation. The number one reason for decreases in productivity in remote workers is disturbance and it is a confirmed and well known fact that it can take a person up to 0.33 hours to return to their original output level after experiencing a distraction.
Deeper insights reveal that people who are regularly experience disturbances are more likely to be susceptible to reduced memory power and are prone to developing mental health trouble in later life. We live in an over communicated society and it is critical that you are acquainted with the issues this causes before you commence working remotely. When working remotely you should do everything feasible to remove the jeopardy of being interrupted.
Here are the essentials:
1, Get a routine, make sure that everybody knows it and stick to it!
Good examples are a specific time of day when you review or compose and reply to mail and make or receive telephone conversatiions. Before I began working remotely I used to receive well over a couple of hundred electronic mails every 24 hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I get more than four. To ‘restart’ my electronic mail experience I changed my e-mail address and obsessively took steps to look after the details being made available to anyone. I then ‘trained’ every person who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it wisely and sparingly. I also set up an automatic reply that swiftly told anyone sending me mail at what time of day I would be attending to mail and if someone required my immediate consideration to mark it as ‘Urgent’.
2. Get rid of alerts.
Turn off absolutely everything that can send you a visual or audible alert. This includes mobile and
ordinary phones and forms of alerts from electronic mail such as display events, warning sounds, display changes to your inbox folder and of course facing a window. Get a door on your office and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.
In ‘Remote Working Part 3 – My list of essentials’ I will reveal my favourite tools and software.
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