Unlock Your Home Office Productivity*

Whether you’ve asked for flexible work options or you’ve decided to become an independent freelancer, working from home is both a blessing and curse. It’s a blessing because, as a mother, you can be there for your child when and where they need you. You don’t need to worry about long working hours at the office because the office is your home. But even with the best will in the world, it can be challenging to maintain high productivity levels when you are in your home environment. Home is not a natural place to work. So you need to transform your home and your approach to work to achieve the productivity you crave.

The Essential Organisation
An office desk immediately appears more organised than sitting at your kitchen table or working from a coffee shop. But ultimately, organisation only requires the right equipment. It’s not a matter of finding your inner strength to motivate yourself to work from home. You just need 5 elements to work from anywhere efficiently. A broadband, a landline, a comfortable chair, a filing cabinet and proper lighting are all you need to keep your mind focused on work when you’re at home. Indeed, if you surround yourself with items that are not work-related and that don’t deliver additional professional value, then it’s impossible to perform.

Make Room to Work
Not everyone lives in a large house where they can find an empty room to transform into an elegant home office. Most people have to make do with small spaces, such as an empty inbuilt cupboard. If you keep the space organised, you can be productive at your desk in the tiniest of rooms. However, when there’s no room inside your home, you might need to be creative and consider a small home extension with Armstrong Steel panels. It’s a cost-friendly method to create a secure space in less than a day in your garden.

Make Time to Work
When you’re a work at home mum, your daily schedule is torn between your clients, your family and yourself. In other words, it’s a challenge to make it work! Naturally, you need to set clear office hours as these will help your clients and your family to respect your time. But you also need to keep the most critical tasks of the day for the moment you’re the most productive, whether it’s when your child is at school or your baby has an afternoon nap.

Reward Yourself
Finally, how do you reward yourself after a long and difficult project? If you worked in an office, you would be taking a day off to relax. But at home, you can’t exactly take a day off. Instead, you can prepare yourself a sweet and healthy drink or book a manicure at the local beauty salon. It’s essential for your mental health to include and schedule a variety of me-time moments, from catching up with friends to enjoying a spicy chai latte in front of your favourite TV show.

So, whether it’s a problem of organisation, space, scheduling or the lack of satisfying breaks, you’ve got now all you need to transform your working days into a productive machine at home!