S5E11 - Working From Home: What We’ve Learned - “If I spend one more hour in this room… I will lose my mind”

<h2><strong>In This Episode:</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Void and Beej are here with hard earned tips and tricks for working from home.  We’ve done this off and on for years at this point so we wanted to let everyone know some of the things we’ve figured out that a lot of you are dealing with for the first time.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Separate Work Space From Home Space</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you don’t have enough room for that… then you need a “work mode” and “home mode” for your setup.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Void has always had a work desk and a home desk in different areas of the house. His home desk has his gaming PC while the work desk is only set up for a laptop with work stuff on it.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beej does, this, too. He has both a laptop and a desktop and finds that when he needs to really work, he can get on the laptop to be less distracted from stuff than on the gaming pc. The Macbook is set up solely for work, while the gaming PC can be used for both.<br /></span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">When You're Done, Be Done</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No one is watching you as closely as you think they are. Bosses included. You have to work and hit your deadlines, but when your day is supposed to be over, then truly disconnect and let it be over.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have a Do Not Disturb function (Slack does, for instance), use it. Some jobs might not have this luxury, but if you do, set a time for DND mode and abide by it.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beej, for instance, stops working around 5pm but keeps Slack on DND past 7pm. That way, communication can still happen and handled when necessary, but it's on his terms. After 7pm, it can wait until 8am.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Breaks From Your Workspace</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the office, t