- I've spent two decades working full time from home, and my career has flourished.
- I love this lifestyle, but many people are finding it a difficult transition amid the coronavirus pandemic, especially given that it was forced on everyone and is accompanied by an anxious time in the world.
- This work style does tend to increase loneliness compared with office life. It's easy to feel fearful over productivity versus getting distracted.
- Here are some universal tips on how to manage WFH that can help make anyone, even those who hate it, more successful.
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Like most of you reading this, my entire company, Insider, is working from home. Hundreds of people.
Insider's global headquarters is in New York, the epicenter of the US coronavirus outbreak. Another large outpost is in San Francisco, also on lockdown. On a normal workday, the office is fun and congenial. Good coffee. Great snacks. An all-in-it-together feeling whether the newsroom is heads down working on breaking news or the video team is interviewing someone famous in our studio right in the middle of the Manhattan office.
But I live in Colorado and normally work from home. While Colorado is also under mandatory stay-at-home orders, most of this is business as usual for me.
Though I'm a remote worker, I've always done well at my jobs, hit my target goals, achieved promotions, won awards, and published important investigative stories.
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After many years of this work style, I have learned several lessons, some of them the hard way. These tips may also apply to parents (I'm one myself) but cover issues other than childcare.
Here are my best tips that can make anyone more successful, whether you love working from home (as I do) or hate it.