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You have to set your own boundaries.
Rising Star
You need to institute your own start and end times. Log off entirely. They’ll call your cell if it’s important
Chief
Agree. Lines have blurred between work and home life in a way that induces burnout.
Never thought I'd say this but the commute was actually a big transition point in my day previously. Without that it's been hard for me to get out of "work mode".
Pro
I integrate work into my life so it feels like a hobby. There’s no start and end times. Work is just something I have to do during the day just like any other errand.
That’s the amount of attention is allowable to me
Awesome hobby
Pro
No. Log on and off around the same time you would if you were in the office. It’s really that simple
100% on all of the above. I have worked remotely for about 9 years now and noticed that more and more clients are sending emails past 9:00 pm because they don’t know how to balance. I’m someone that feels the need to respond to email urgently so I’ve set that limit to myself, also saying “no one is dying, this can wait until the morning.”
When I log off my computer for the evening, I'm done until next morning. I also have notifications silenced on my phone in the evenings.
I find that the lines are blurred now but I still have more flexibility. So I may have times where I’m working until 11 pm but I also went to the gym at 2 in the afternoon or picked my kids up from school and ate dinner with them. In the days of the office, I would have just been at work u til 11. Much prefer this version.
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I’d trade in a heartbeat
Several comments above that I reflected on
If the people you work with do not create boundaries as well, this idea of self imposed boundaries breaks down. In the one of the examples above, someone mentioned going to the gym at 2pm and working at 11pm. That ends up requiring team members to respond to emails coming at 11pm. As each person has their own flexible schedule, it amplifies the work life balance issues
Pro
^^^^^^^^
A lot of the pressure ppl feel is often self-imposed. Not entirely (I know there are terrible companies that do impose these things either literally or thru culture), but typically it's more us not creating and practicing boundaries which then makes us more susceptible to those behaviors from others.
Create an actual schedule for a week and just stick to it to see how it goes. If you get questions or complaints, then say you're working on trying to improve your work life balance to be able to better contribute/lead/(insert some other important word based on your role. Then ask the person how they do that then thank them for their advice. It'll make them 1) feel accepting of your process 2) unintentionally supportive. Bonus: if they're talkative, they'll inadvertently tell others so you won't have to as much and slowly, but surely you have ppl respect your boundaries, unquestioned.
You will still have to enforce the boundary by redirecting people but it's worth it.
And just a reminder, remote work breaks remote not home. So try going to a coffee shop or coworkubg space every once in a while. Maybe go out to lunch nearby. Try grocery shopping at lunch or doing a home task during that period. Just something to remind yourself that the flexibility is there.
I feel the opposite. I feel like I have to send random messages and remember to keep my computer awake to keep my status online so people don’t think I’m taking a nap or something.
It depends a lot on your manager. In consulting, managers/partners at my firm thought “well if you’re at home, you don’t have anything else to do but work!” (They were all men, whose wives would drop off meals to their desks and watch the kids all day.) I now work for industry and my managers and directors use WFH to hang out with their kids, get workouts in, etc. different world