What unconventional tips do you have for remote working?

Daily plank challenge! It's been really neat just to get my body moving. It takes about 4 mins. And also meeting with other remote workers on https://meetcafecito.com has been really cool. Lots of us just want face to face time, chances to meet new people, and have a tiny fun break within their day.

Get a decent tool like ProProfs Help Desk (https://www.proprofsdesk.com/). If you are a customer-facing business looking for ways to improve the productivity of your remotely-working support staff, then this tool is for you. It helps your team stay on top of customer requests, prioritize, track, and manage them - all on a single platform. Besides this, you can have virtual coffee sessions with your team every once in a while. Trust me, coffee always works!

Here's how Stack Overflow approaches remote work at scale (you might find a lot of useful tips there): https://standuply.com/blog/stack...

You WILL miss that gourmet Flat White from the lovely specialty coffee place. Buy yourself a prosumer espresso machine (mine is a bean-to-cup Sage Barista) and learn through YouTube to get (almost) the same coffee. Your days of working from home will be way brighter.

I like to have certain hours during the day where I keep Houseparty on and colleagues and friends can hop in. This can get distracting, so I just do it during hours where I'm working on something that could be collaborative, and definitely not during times of any deep work.

1) Write 1-2 most important tasks on a post it and place it in front of you. 2) Place a yoga mat or dumbbells in the middle of the room to remind you to move every time you get up. 3) Put on noise-cancelling headphones, put on 1 song on repeat (currently listening to Godzilla by Eminem), and turn on fullscreen mode to work. Try them.

Enriching activities to keep kids learning and entertained while parents work schoolclosures.org/enrichment

Invest in great lighting and youtube vlogger level grade A make-up that works in bright artificial lights ;)

If you're a manager, it's important to provide a space that connects your people to the answers they need to do their job and stay safe. Read, Why knowledge management is essential - https://link.medium.com/quL8OEijW4

Creating a 'watercooler' type Zoom link that anyone on the team can hop into and join if they need a bit of a break from heads-down focus time. The 'face-to-face' social chats help keep me sane.