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So COVID-19 Means You Have to Work from Home… Now What?

Working from home can be good but tricky. Here are 10 steps that will help you adjust to your new workflow and find a healthy work-life balance in this new coronavirus world…

Brandon Anderson
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11 min readMar 17, 2020

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It happened.

You finally got the instruction to work from home.

No more commute. No more dress shoes, no suit and tie. No more 17th meeting of the day, no smell of your coworker’s tuna salad sandwich wafting in around noon everyday.

You’ve always dreamed of working from home, but suddenly it’s here, and it’s new and scary. How do you get anything done? How do you maintain productivity with everything going on? When does work start — and where does it stop?

I’m not an expert, but I did sleep in my own bed last night and woke up whenever I wanted to start my workday. I’ve worked freelance from home the last five years and learned the hard way how to do this right. These are 10 lessons I’ve learned along the way…

1. Set up your workstation space.

Find one room in your home where you work, even one particular spot in that room if possible. Maybe that’s a desk in your office room. Maybe it’s a…

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Brandon Anderson
The Startup

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