I absolutely love this advice from Intelligencer’s Brian Feldman, where he describes the importance of thinking about how you actually type. On Windows, use Task Scheduler to set this up or drop app shortcuts in your Startup folder on macOS, you can have the app “Open at login.” (You’ll also want to set your system to log in automatically.) If so, set it up for the start of your workday, or even a few minutes before it, and have whatever applications your team uses to communicate start up when your operating system launches. You should be able to have your computer automatically power on at a certain time each day-at least, most computers should have this setting buried somewhere in their BIOS. Let your computer “start your day” while you sleep You could also be a total badass and put your mouse on top of your wristwatch. You could also hunt around to see if the apps you use have specific third-party utilities that can help you appear present, like the wonderfully named Slackoff or Slack Presence. If you need to supplement that with a little mouse movement, something like Auto Mouse Mover or Move Mouse could work. If you’re planning a small trip to the grocery store, or an afternoon movie, and you don’t want whatever apps you’re using to rat you out, you’ll want to find a way to make it appear as if you’re at your desk.Ĭaffeinated is a great tool that you can use to keep your monitor on when you’re away from your desk, which might be all you need to do-provided you also keep whatever app you’re using in focus. Keep yourself from going idleĭepending on what apps you’re using to communicate with your coworkers-Slack, let’s say-it’s possible that they might register you as idle in some way when you’re away from your desk (for whatever reason). Whatever the reason, it’s easy to conceal your loafing. Perhaps you’re just lazy, or it’s a nice day outside and you want to take advantage of it. Maybe you’ve been putting in a ton of time at work and you want to carve out a little time for yourself. It’s not the most ethical thing to do, but I’m not here to judge. Of course, you can also take advantage of working from home to, well, not do a lot of work. It’s the one silver lining of the coronavirus-the hope that maybe, just maybe, some companies will relax their anti-WFH policies a bit and allow employees to take advantage of the extra productivity (and world’s easiest commute). I’ve been working from home for a number of years now, and there are few things more satisfying than being able to do your laundry and get work done instead of having to waste your precious evening hours on chores.
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