You can expect many books to be written about the longform consequences surrounding coronavirus and the working world. Now, more than ever, working from home has become feasible for lucky individuals, and it has made the structural development of corporate workplaces less office-bound than ever.
That being said, those who are self-employed and secure clients through their own home office are now starting to see the benefit of their previously risk-laden approach. However, it’s true that while recent societal turmoil has made this the standard, for that standard to last, excellent optimizations will need to be put in place in order to secure reliable forward progress.
So, what are we to think as budding home entrepreneurs hoping to make the most of our productivity and motivation? In this post, we hope to explore three ways in which you can optimize and enhance the workday and relationship you have to your inbound clients. After all, just because something works in lockdown, it does not necessarily guarantee that life will be as easy to predict when normality resumes. With that in mind, please consider the following advice:
Virtual Office Might
A virtual office registration can grant you many conveniences worth thinking about. To start with, it can give you a virtual office address that helps you protect the privacy of your home business, something that many sole traders and entrepreneurs would rather keep secret. A virtual office can also grant you virtual mailbox and forward mailing functionalities, which allows you to keep your correspondence neat, tidy and organized. The more we can establish easy-to-maintain systems such as this, the more our home office structure can benefit.
Excellent Security Suites
It’s also essential to secure yourself as a home business. Security suites such as antivirus, MalwareBytes, and/or a VPN can ensure your storage is protected and your online traffic is encrypted. It’s also worth ensuring that 2-factor authentication is enabled on all of your accounts, but not the SMS variety as this can be intercepted. Google authenticator or Authy are two of the most popular methods of keeping your codes safe, and thus you can avoid nasty infiltrations of your accounts. If it can happen to @jack, co-founder of Twitter, it can also happen to you.
Productivity Management Software
Productivity management software is a fantastic means of staying afloat of all your responsibilities. From using Evernote to note take and share work chats with those you work with to the best calendar apps that help structure your daily life, using synced software compatible with the cloud can help you avoid feeling burned out or confused. This is even more important in the home office, as digitizing your schedule and notes can help you avoid overflowing your home office with papers, files and ultimately, essential documentation.
With these practices, you will no doubt find that optimizing the functionality of your home office is not only a pipe dream, but an actionable approach you can better your performance with.
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