How to Boost Your Efficiency and Work Rate While Working From Home

There is so much joy that comes with getting a remote job -  it's like you winning a lottery. However, the joy may be short-lived if you discover that 24 hours is never enough because you never or rarely meet up with deadlines, and even when you do, your work isn't good enough. If you face any of the challenges above, you just stumbled on the right article to help you.


Working from home requires a level of self-discipline and a conventional work ethic. Sometimes, remote workers spend more time working than on-site workers. However, many remote workers have not been able to manage this well. A lot of factors are responsible for this. If you are a remote worker, or you hope to be one someday, pay keen attention to the subsequent paragraphs to know what factor(s) affects you, and how it can be managed.

Factors Affecting Your Efficiency and Work Rate When You Work From Home

Factors affecting the efficiency of working from home are numerous. However, I will be explaining just three for this article. They include:

1. Lack of Self-Discipline

For you to achieve any rate of success, you must be disciplined. You have to be in charge of yourself, what you think, say, and do. Do you procrastinate? Do you assume that you can always yield the same result even during a late start? Do you allow the workload to weigh you down resulting in you not starting to work on your project on time? Well, if yes, these are the signs of a lack of self-discipline. If this habit is not controlled on time, you are likely to have it affect not just your work life, but also other aspects of your day-to-day life.

2. Individual Personality

You must understand the kind of person you are. It is paramount to know what works for you, what makes you function well, and what hinders your efficiency. When it comes to the workspace, various individuals function differently, depending on what works best for them. A practical instance is an individual with a melancholic temperament. Such an individual would always aim at perfection and would not work alone to achieve the perfection he or she yearns for. On the other hand, a sanguine would rather work collectively, because that is the only way they achieve effective results. They are more sociable and effective with people. Now, it is up to you to determine what works best for you, until you do, you are likely to keep wallowing in the uncertain pool of inefficiency when working from home.

3) Home and Environmental Distractions

The first two factors can be said to be within your control totally, but this factor is not entirely within your control. This is why you must pay keen attention to these forms of distraction. In the home, if you have a family, the distraction multiplies. Sometimes, in the home, there is a need to do house chores, overlooking and ignoring them won't always work out for you. Imagine wanting to start your day at work and you can see or smell a pile of dirty dishes? Sometimes you have to babysit. Some other times, you don't have a particular working space. Your environment also plays a huge role in how distracted you get. If you live in a noisy neighborhood, chances are that you will not always be on time when it comes to your work report. If you want to be a remote worker, you must be intentional about the kind of environment you live in.

Managing These Factors and Boosting Your Efficiency and Work Rate

The solution to a problem begins with identifying that problem. Now that we have identified three factors, how do you think they can be managed? The paragraphs below have something to tell you.

1) The truth is, no matter how disciplined you are, sometimes, unforeseen activities come up. This is where your sense of priorities and time management comes in. On your time management list, you must always work on activities that are important and urgent first, followed by activities that are important but not urgent. You should learn how to prioritize what comes first and what isn't worth your time at all. You have to discipline yourself enough to let go of those things that are unimportant and not urgent. This way, you would see that even when cases of unplanned engagements pop up, you would have enough time to spare. Also, imbibe the dictum, "You Can Do Today, What You Want To Do Tomorrow," to curb procrastination.

2) Your personality also matters. If you enjoy working alone, then being a remote worker should not be a problem. You only need to focus on some other factors that will hinder your efficiency. However, if you have a personality that enjoys connectivity, you have to be more conscious of how you go about your remote work. One thing that might be of assistance to you is calling up a couple of your colleagues, having virtual sessions with them from time to time, and motivating yourself to "Do What You Have T Do Until You Can Do What You Want To Do."

3) Home and environmental distractions can be managed. I know a couple of remote workers that pay monthly for study centers. They go there to work and come back after they are done working. Well, if this will increase your financial burden, you can decide to discuss with your family members to reduce their not very important activities around the home, enroll your kids in extracurricular activities during the day, etc. For the noise coming from your environment, you have little or no control over that, so you might decide to get a sort of material that you can fix into your ears to limit the amount of noise that goes in. Always note that "There Is No Situation That Can Not Be Managed."

Conclusively, ensure to have a positive disposition of getting your work done. This is the only factor that can propel you into the extra miles which will aid your work efficiency. Give fewer excuses on why something can't be done. Seek solutions and act on them. Consistency is key, and only the consistent ones win. I hope you find your way to achieving a good and effective method of working efficiently from home.