Help Your Team Combat Work From Home Fatigue

The last year has been challenging for everyone. For your team members, the sudden transition to working from home can mean changes that affect their entire household. Working from home can mean your team members are coping with their workload, online school if they have children, restlessness, and general household chaos. Here are five simple ways to help your team members avoid – or overcome – work from home fatigue.

1. Encourage your team to limit distractions as much as possible, while recognizing that this isn’t always possible in a family home.
2. In the office, team members take lunch and coffee breaks. Remind your team of the importance of taking regular breaks even when working in their home office.
3. Urge team members to host virtual get togethers. Connecting with the people they used to see every day can help foster workplace friendships and team camaraderie.
4. Remind your team of the importance of creating a comfortable workspace – and of placing your company’s marketing and branding materials in their regular sightline.
5. Just like your team should take breaks during the workday, they should also remember to take days off, which can be tricky when your office is so easily accessible.

Work from home fatigue can be caused by limited social interaction, and online meeting frustration, overwhelm. Its effect can also be minimized with these helpful techniques.

One of the best ways to help your team overcome the combination of work from home fatigue as they transition back to the office – or keep working from home – is to get them together in beautiful Mexico. As we continue to make strides toward reopening the world, our team is ready to help yours plan a much-needed team retreat. Contact our sales team today to learn more about how we help company’s just like yours build – or rebuild – great teams.