Covid-19 & Work from home facility

Most of the service oriented companies are providing Work From Home facility to their employees for last 3 to 4 months and some of the companies have been providing this kind of facility in the past irrespective of Corona pandemic. This kind of WFH (Working From Home) facility many employees expecting since long time, due to COVID-19 and its sequences now its worn reality in advance.

Few companies declared that they are going to continue WFH facility to their employees in future as well, WFH is not the new work culture in the corporate sector and its not limited to few employees. It benefits both employee and employer, employee no need to travel to office and can save time & money by avoiding travel and can away from pollution etc. In employer aspect they can enjoy more productivity and less maintenance costs leads to profits.

Also there are few negative sides as well,

• Some employees may have to work more working hours than at office.
• There will be no significant physical distance between home and office this leads to no complete detachment for both the environments (office or work).
• There is no direct interaction with colleagues, only mobile communication is an option, or with any other technical options w.r.t off site.
• Most of the employees not having same kind of office environment at their homes in terms of furniture, uninterrupted power supply , AC and etc.
• Employer may get queries on loyalty of the employee if things are not in streamline.

Working for more hours and there is no detachment to office,  employee may undergo more stress  physically and mentally,  these leads to health issues. Sometimes over working hours is not avoidable and if its frequent situation employee should be in the position to distinguish work and home and act consciously as per importance of work, home, personal & family. In long run employee may get irritated on work  and not interesting on things to be done, that may affects productivity. Once feeling lost, it will not come back in original perception. These all not only in case of WHF, can be applicable all the cases.

Lets follow below few tips for good work & health!

1. Make ensure that we have comfortable seating arrangement either for laptop or desktop? If not having such a facility, give foremost importance and invest for that facility. If we are not having proper working zone we get strained early and that may cause back pain and other health issues. Also ensure that proper air and ventilation at home work place. You may comfortable on working on bed, but in long hours you experiences certain pains, better avoid this habit.
2. There will be a psychological feeling as we are at home, no hurry for having food or short breaks. Even we are at home try to manage to finish lunch on time. Do not hurry to work after finish your lunch, get relax for 10 to 15 mins. Ensure that daily we are consuming quality and quantity of water. Also take short breaks based on working hours.
3. Do not sit continuously for long hours while working, do some stretches while sitting on chair or by standing. do a walk few meters for every hour or two hours interval. Proper sitting posture is much important to avoid back pain and also blink your eyes frequently.
4. Possible fix your log-on and log-off timings. Do not hurry for early log in than specified time unless its something urgent, make hobby of log in and log out in fixed timings. Once you log off from work, turn off your mind also from work, otherwise we will not feel home climate, in long run we may experiences other issues.
5. Do body workouts regularly, do not neglect precaution towards Corona including all family members. Add some breathing exercises in daily workouts. At the end health and family is more important.