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Coronavirus Has People Working From Home, And It's Finally Remote Workers' Time To Shine
Yet another side effect of the Coronavirus Scare is that multiple companies have either encouraged or mandated employees to work from home to prevent the spread of the illness.
This is a rare development for much of the American workforce, but for freelancers and much of the terminally online, this is par for the course. With many Americans doing their jobs on their home computer, a micro internet economy of work from home tips and memes has sprung up this week. Twitter covered a few threads sharing tips on how to handle working from home effectively. The most common tip: stick to your work plan.
More tips (especially if you live with someone else):•wear headphones and listen to music to block out external noise•if music doesn't work for you, get earplugs! They're extremely useful•schedule work time! Set up times with your roommate for using the living room for work
— Sophia Gad-Nasr (@Astropartigirl) March 8, 2020
More tips (especially if you live with someone else):•wear headphones and listen to music to block out external noise•if music doesn't work for you, get earplugs! They're extremely useful•schedule work time! Set up times with your roommate for using the living room for work
— Sophia Gad-Nasr (@Astropartigirl) March 8, 2020
More tips (especially if you live with someone else):•wear headphones and listen to music to block out external noise•if music doesn't work for you, get earplugs! They're extremely useful•schedule work time! Set up times with your roommate for using the living room for work
— Sophia Gad-Nasr (@Astropartigirl) March 8, 2020
More tips (especially if you live with someone else):•wear headphones and listen to music to block out external noise•if music doesn't work for you, get earplugs! They're extremely useful•schedule work time! Set up times with your roommate for using the living room for work
— Sophia Gad-Nasr (@Astropartigirl) March 8, 2020
1. Put on real workplace appropriate clothes. 2. Take amount of a.m. commute time to read, have coffee, listen to podcast, etc.3. Have a distinct working area. Bonus if closeable door. 4. Avoid household chores on 'break'5. Keep normal lunch time and duration6. Headphones
— Dustin Hughes (@dustin_hughes) March 8, 2020
Many gave tips on how to handle cats, who are notorious for not caring that you're trying to work.
Make a cat-proof barrier around your keyboard.
— Radha Venkat (@AhdarTaknev) March 8, 2020
Make a cat-proof barrier around your keyboard.
— Radha Venkat (@AhdarTaknev) March 8, 2020
Make a cat-proof barrier around your keyboard.
— Radha Venkat (@AhdarTaknev) March 8, 2020
Others had a more comical take on the work from home development.
me and my coworkers logging into all of our meetings remotely for the next couple of weeks pic.twitter.com/fpOYiHJLcl
— isha (@ikasliwal) March 9, 2020
There's a weird obsession with sweatpants from people who don't usually work from home but now have to. It's simultaneously a mark of societal decay and the great expression of freedom. pic.twitter.com/GCtqk1YZfT
— DHH (@dhh) March 10, 2020
work from home pic.twitter.com/IgFjbvS5cl
— hulyen🔪 (@hulyen) March 10, 2020
Stay sane out there, remote workers.
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