How to redo the home office

If you haven’t done it already, we have some tips for you to get started

Not so long ago, work-from-home (WFH) was a perk that companies used as a carrot. COVID-19 changed all that, making home offices and remote working the norm. A McKinsey report, What’s next for remote work, stated that quarantines, lockdowns, and self-imposed isolation have “pushed tens of millions around the world to work from home, accelerating a workplace experiment that had struggled to gain traction before COVID-19 hit”. The report, which did an analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries, revealed that the potential for remote work is “highly concentrated among highly skilled, highly educated workers in a handful of industries, occupations, and geographies”. That may be so, but the resurgence of the virus means that WFH isn’t going away any time soon. In such a scenario, many people will continue to work out of home, divvying up their time between office duties and family. Working at the dining table may have been fine for a while, but now it’s high time you dedicated a space to your home office. Creating an office set-up and ensuring that it’s a comfortable working environment ensures that you get your work done easily. So if you haven’t done it already, here’s how you can go about it: