Episode 166: How to Work Better from Home - a conversation with Laura Vanderkam

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Working from home is the new normal for a lot of us. But that doesn't mean we like it. Or that we're good at it. In this episode I sit down with Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and, most recently, The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work from Home. Working from your house or apartment has taken on new meaning - and stress - in the pandemic. But Laura says there are ways to gain focus, force yourself to stop at the end of the day, and make the rhythm of the whole thing work for you. WFH won't go away when the pandemic does, but doing it well is a skill that most of us need a little help mastering.

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0:28.9	Intended for general wellness and fitness only. Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.
0:45.0	I'm Ashley Milne Tite.
0:47.1	This time, as many of us go back into lockdown, we need to get used to working from home.
0:57.9	But it's not easy. It was hard to figure out psychologically, how do you feel productive for the day if you haven't gone anywhere? How do you know
1:02.9	the day is over? Is it sometimes hard to get in work mode or get out of work mode, which is
1:07.9	actually more of a problem for many people? How to work better from home. Coming up on the broad experience.
1:24.1	Depending on where you live, you may well be experiencing an echo of what we all went through
1:29.5	earlier this year, being in lockdown and working from home. It's definitely part of what's
1:36.4	happening to women's careers right now. And while some people have enjoyed this break from
1:41.5	their regular workplace and ditching the commute, we don't all fall into that category.
1:47.4	Throw in the stresses of caring for children and monitoring their homeschooling.
1:52.5	And working from home looks a lot different than it did pre-pandemic.
1:57.8	Laura van der Kamm is a work-from-home veteran.
2:03.4	You've heard her on the show before and probably a lot of other places as well. She's an author and podcaster. She writes a lot about time use and productivity,
2:09.3	and I last spoke to her in 2015 for a show about how women can better manage their time. A few months ago, she came out with a new book inspired by the
2:20.1	pandemic. It's called The New Corner Office, how the most successful people work from home.
2:27.1	I recognized in March that a lot of people were trying to work in an entirely new way, and they
2:34.1	were looking for content
2:35.2	about how to do it well. And to me, you know, I've been working from home for something like
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