Work from Home Ergonomics
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Working from home means being home a lot 🏡
- It can be difficult to live/work in the same (any) environment
- Home life could distract from work and vice versa
- Challenges changing behaviors and routines brought from home
- Inadequate technical setup for an office
Separate where you live and where you work: barriers, habits, routine, or digitally (more on this)
- Working in a different room than where you sleep/relax
- Build habits that make work easier (keep phone/TV away)
- Create a morning routine that serves as a "commute to work"
Here are some tips to make it a more enjoyable work environment!
Some standards...
- Take breaks regularly ⌚
- Get up and walk around every hour
- Or exercise (stretches and squats) 💪
- Natural lighting near a window
- Match monitor brightness to surroundings
- A well positioned chair
- Low back support
- Shoulders should hang, not hunch
- Coffee ☕
- Maybe...
Some not so obvious tips
- Good ergonomics 💃💻
- Position the screen/monitor to be eye height
- Keyboard and wrists at elbow length
- Feet flat on the ground
- 20-20-20 rule 👀
- Every 20 minutes look 20 ft (6m) away for 20 seconds
- A night light (every OS has one in settings)
- Regular sleep schedules! 😴
- Can't be overstated
Break timers
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Otto (Chrome)
- Pomodoro timer and website blocker extension
- BreakTimer
- Stretchly
- Any "Pomodoro" app
Other tools I love
What are some tips you have for working from home?
Let's put this on Notion!
Work from Home Ergonomics
By jacksongoode
Work from Home Ergonomics
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