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Good morning, this is Laura.

Welcome to the new corner office, the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the new world of work.

Where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.

Today's tip is to plan your breaks.

When you're working remotely or even just working flexibly, you have more autonomy over your hours.

You can set a schedule that maximizes your productivity and your enjoyment of work in life.

A big part of that is figuring out optimal times for breaks.

Now if you're thinking to yourself, I don't take breaks or even if you're thinking I don't need breaks, well, think again.

Traditional offices are distracting places, breaks happen there, whether we seek them out or not.

And breaks aren't a bad thing.

We can all recall being completely stumped by something.

Talk to a colleague about the weather, drive home, go for a run, or cook dinner, and boom, there's the solution.

Once we ease up the pressure to solve the problem, it seems to solve itself.

Breaks can do that.

When you're working from home, it pays to be intentional about building in breaks.

Since casual interactions in your workplace won't create the breaks for you.

Many people like to have a rough template to follow most days so that they don't have to plan their days from scratch.

Over the years, I've noticed that some schedules work better for optimizing energy than others.

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