How do you manage to separate work and personal life when working remotely?

Pomodoro works for me. 20 mins of work , 5 mins family time then 20 mins of work. Don't avoid family time , integrate or find a symbiotic relation with family time

Its hard for me too, but when I had work from home.. I used to get in to separate room, lock the room from inside and work...how we use have breaks in office I tried to maintain the same way.. after log out , lock the room from out side. But still it hard because too many knocks on the door apparently ended up with too many breaks,....

I am still trying to figure this out. My jobs include SAHM, cook, social media manager, data analyst, content writer, strategist... I've got a lot going on and I have to work when my baby is sleeping. I'm giving calendar color coding a shot to see if that helps me get more done and enjoy more of my time! Taking a walk at the end of the day helps to cut off my working hours.

Hi, I like work time but making space for home/personal stuff. By example if I do/eat breakfast I will wash the dishes right after I finish (this allow the dishes to not make a big pile growing as the day progresses), then I get into work and do a burst of tasks to make advances, if I need to get up to relax from being seated, I often also do water the plans or do any other task that takes less than 10 minutes. Same happens after midday. As you see mine is somewhat mixed up too, is difficult to separate them, the best you can do is to know how and when to make time for work / personal. Because if you want to separate them completely you will be working from 8 to 5 and after that time you will have a lot of personal stuff to get done, which is somewhat as if you were working not remotely. If in your home live other persons wether are mates, family or couple, you need to let them know you have time to work and you can't be constantly interrupted for home related stuff and time they see you around the home is not that you are free, is time that you need to release tension from being seated. Keep in mind what is the purpose or benefits of do remote work: - Claim back time that it usually get wasted in commuting and use that time for personal stuff - Since you work from home, you can take breaks from work but use that time to make some little home related tasks - Do not work more that the hours you would work in office, if your exit is at 5pm, stop working at that time, if you have a need to do work organize or respond or follow up emails, use an app that allow to schedule the send the next business hours (this prevents that mates and bosses see you as an always on demand person) - Once you exit at 5pm is fully your time, use it for whatever you want, go shopping, go for a walk, relax, etc. Hope this helps

Hi! I go to another room for work and arrange everything there for a working atmosphere

When working from home, the line between work life and personal life can get blurry. It may become harder to tune out at the end of the workday. Having worked remotely for some time now, I tend to diversify a working week a bit by for example going to another location. I prefer a coffee shop, but it also could be a library, or shared working space, etc. Changing scenery once in a while helps a lot. But other than that, it also helps to define the schedule for yourself (working hours, taking a break, etc), and also having a separate space for work in the house helps with imagining that you (me😉) work from an office and not home.

Hello Elina! You can try coworking spaces in your neighbourhood with flexible hours

I use separate devices for my work and personal affairs. That helps my set clear boundaries and compartmentalize my work and personal life.

Depends on person to person. There are some who are excellent in planning and execution and time management. For me, Planning works to certain extent as most of the things land up ad hoc. I take things as they come and before I do that, I ensure to complete the task in hand. Otherwise, I will mess up the entire day!

Hi @elina_rappu. Really a tough question to answer. But, I have a thumb rule to work only in office room in my home for work and arrange everything there for a working atmosphere.