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Welcome to the WORKING FROM HOME - FACULTY & STAFF guide

This guide will provide you with resources to help you adapt to working from home.

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Advice for Working from Home

Regardless if you are instructional staff or not, working from home is a challenge for many reasons. Here are some advice to help you keep focused, productive and sane.

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*NEW* How to Salvage a Disastrous Day in Your Covid-19 Quarantine
Most of us have completed a full month of physical distancing, working and teaching from home in the wake of Covid-19. As we settle into this new reality, many are questioning whether they are faring better or worse by this stage. Some are excitedly doing yoga, baking bread, and writing papers. Others have hit a wall and are crying into a bag of potato chips...
Make “work from home” work for you. (Google)
When working from home, productivity strategies are even more important because we don’t have the ordinary structure of a day at the office, like commuting to work, walking to meetings, or running into coworkers. When your house becomes your office, you need to learn a whole new routine. Get some tips from the experts at Google.
7 rules for remote-work sanity. (Opensource.com)
"These rules don't describe my complete practice, but they are an important summary of what I try to do and what keeps me (relatively) sane." A great article with good advice.
Working from home? 4 tips for staying productive. (Google)
"Whether it’s done by choice or by necessity, working from home has its benefits, like avoiding your daily commute. But it also means it’s up to you to motivate yourself and get as much out of your time as you would in an office setting.
To help, here are four tips to keep yourself accountable, collaborative, and productive as you work from home."
5 tips for effectively working from home when you have kids. (CNBC)
"For thousands of parents who have been asked to work remotely, this means extra challenges when trying to balance the demands of work life and home life. Though many parents have had a “one-off working-from-home day” when a kid is sick or the weather is bad, the reality of working remotely every single day alongside your kids is very different."
5 Tips for Staying Productive and Mentally Healthy While You're Working From Home (Time Magazine)
"Plenty of people fantasize about working from the comfort of their own home, but working remotely is a double-edge sword — sure, you get to stay home, but it can be harder to focus on actually working. How can you stay focused on the job and mentally healthy while working remotely? Start by putting on some pants. Here are four tips from work-from-home veterans."
Get More Done: 18 Tips for Telecommuters (inc.com)
"Working from home is great on so many levels. But there are challenges, as well. How do you keep from getting distracted with domestic duties? How do you handle a friend who calls in the middle of the day? How do you get anything done if you have kids around? Here's advice on how to make telecommuting work."
This article is a bit older but has some really good tips.

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