There are undoubted benefits for the environment in large numbers of people working from home and cutting out the commute, but you might be thinking that your own energy use and utility bills will be shooting up if you’re at home all day long. You can offset the expense to some extent by claiming for a proportion of your household bills when you do your tax return, and you might also want to check how well your house is insulated and glazed.
This is the fun part – now that all the red tape and physical requirements are sorted out, you can make your workspace an enjoyable place to be. It doesn’t have to look like an office at all, although bear in mind the impression it might make if you ever have visitors.
You can paint or paper the walls in your favourite colours and patterns and put up the paintings, posters and photos that invigorate and inspire you. It’s a good idea to display mementoes of your achievements and successes, such as qualifications, certificates, awards, and letters of thanks. Seeing these around you will boost your confidence. Photos of family will remind you why you are working hard and give you an incentive when you’re flagging. Buy colourful files, not those dull, institutional ones that come in packs and make everything look so boring.
Some people are inspired by having a ‘dream board’ over their desk, a notice board where you stick pictures of what you want to achieve, whether that be a car, a house, a holiday destination, professional recognition, a major contract, and so on. The idea is that the pictures act as a reminder to keep plugging away when the going gets tough, and being constantly in your mind, they will also attract the circumstances and people you need to achieve those things. It’s got to be worth a try.
Plants are a useful addition to your workspace.Not only do they provide a shot of life and colour but they also filter pollutants from the air and increase the negative ionisation and oxygen content of air, mitigating the effects of electronic equipment and making you feel better. Peace Lilies are particularly good for this, as are philodedrons and rubber plants.
Now your home workspace is set up, you and you alone can decide who comes in and when.
When you work from home for someone else, you will probably work to a set of guidelines as to who may visit you at home – colleagues are usually OK – and who should not – usually clients and associates who work for other organisations. So you are spared the decision self-employed people often have to make about who, if anyone, should visit them at home.
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