The New Corner Office: Be (a little) less efficient

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The case for running an errand during the workday

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0:35.5	Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the new corner office, the podcast where we share
0:42.4	strategies for thriving in the new world of work, where location and hours are more flexible
0:49.1	than in the past. Today's tip is to occasionally run an errand during the work day.
0:56.4	You don't want to make a habit of it, but sometimes, getting out and about in the middle of the
1:01.6	day can make a work from home day feel more doable. I know that millions of people have started
1:08.1	working from home for the first time over the past few months, which makes all sorts of schedule
1:12.9	changes possible. If your normal experience of going to grocery stores or places like Target is
1:18.5	right after work or on weekend afternoons, your first trip on Tuesday at 10 a.m. is going to blow
1:25.2	your mind. There are often more employees than customers in the aisles. Everything is well stocked.
1:33.2	No one pushes you on the way to the melt case, which actually happened to me once when I hit
1:38.2	the grocery store at 4 p.m. on a Saturday. No one likes being shoved at the melt case.
1:44.7	So if you start working from home more regularly, it can be tempting to do all your errands on
1:50.2	Tuesday at 10 a.m. and yet most of us who've worked from home for a while go through that phase.
1:57.4	But the problem is if you're working from home you are working. Taking hours out of the day
2:04.0	regularly for errands is not the best way to maximize productivity. Your best off getting things
2:10.8	delivered and maybe splitting errands with other family members so no one takes the whole productivity
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