today's video topic is about what it's like working from home
hey guys ECR G here back with another video today's topic is about what it's
like working from home especially in the clinical research industry as most of
our videos are related toward the clinical research industry we do have a
couple videos that can be applied elsewhere so if you're following this
channel and you're not in clinical research
you can try and apply what we talk about on this channel to your given field or
if you're on the periphery of a field you can do that also but in today's
video we're talking about what it's like working from home now this could be new
for a lot of people and I must admit this is not for everybody and so I would
recommend that you exercise some level of self-awareness to your situation I
know people who have like small kids that are at home and you know maybe
their wife works from a home also or their spouse works from home also and
working from home is not very conducive for them because it's loud they're
people in and out the house all day or maybe you've getting some work done on
your home or your apartment complex and you know it's loud and just Harper you
to concentrate you can't take calls at home because it's loud and people are
gonna understand or maybe you've got a lot of pets at home or something and
they're loud you dog scratching at the door barking all the time so this is
really an opportunity for you to exercise a lot of self-awareness and
understand okay do I have the ability to work from home if given that opportunity
is it gonna be quiet do I have good internet connection do I have a phone
line if you're using your cell phone that's fine also but do you have maybe a
separate room in the house where you can go to to exercise some quiet some peace
and quiet and do you have a desk that you can work on do you have some extra
monitors you can use because I know at work I have a couple screens when I do
go into the office I do have a couple screens that I like and I would be
honest working from home sometimes is not as efficient as we're going into the
office but it is it is so awesome to be able to not have to leave the house for
a day and not have to use that gas or not have to worry about commuting so
when it comes to working from home definitely want to exercise that
self-awareness and see if your situation is conducive for it and if not maybe you
move if you can or maybe you spend some time really focusing on building that
office setting building that situation where you can work from home in the
clinical research industry there are plenty of positions that are capable of
working from home many of the project managers I know do
work from home see our aides obviously work from home a lot when they're not
traveling on the road you know playing different positions because if you think
about it most people just go to the go to work and get on the computer like
they do anywhere a lot of people call in to the meetings remotely also I remember
I could have done a few jobs I mean a few jobs can be done completely remotely
it's just that the corporate America really has an antiquated view point
where they feel like they need a babysitter for you in the office to make
sure you get your work done they need a babysitter
AIE your manager which is absolutely ridiculous and I think we're gonna be
moving to a direction away from that model where hey you get your work done
it is what it is now could it be hard for someone like eyes like I said before
it I tend to not get as much work done while I work from home as I do in the
office but that's by design primarily because one if I wanted to boost my
productivity I'd get an extra monitor I have an extra monitor but I'd get an
extra extra monitor so I'd have two monitors plus my laptop screen and now
to boost my productivity even more because that's the setup I have at work
another thing is I tend to shift work that can be done at home or make make
basically make the work from home days easier days than the in the days when I
go into work and I do that by design so that we're going working from home is
kind of like a treat it's kind of like you know Andrew a really enjoyable
experience like I'll go take like a lunch break maybe I'll go maybe I'll go
to the gym or maybe I'll go run an errand or something but I do that
I don't do that at all at work when I'm at work I work my eight hours front to
back maybe take five minutes to go warm up my food for lunch and then I'm right
back on my desk I don't really spend any extra time
dilly-dallying I'm not really one of those people that's gonna walk around
the office and talking to talking to a lot of people apart from like the
networking opportunities etc but when I'm at work I'm at work but at home I
like to take it a little bit more slowly like to relax a little bit more I
typically take my work from home days on days that I know are gonna be less busy
so you know that could be any day during the week really but I like to structure
my days that way and I like to schedule you know anything this me more intense
on the days that I'm not working from home so that's something that you can
think about from your work from home days and you're working from home
experience to just have that self-awareness because ideally you don't
want there to be a huge drop-off in productivity when you're working from
home and your managers will say that also they don't want people to know
you're working from home so that goes into that self-awareness we were talked
about earlier where like if you have barking dogs or whatever you want to go
to a room where it's gonna be quieter or if you have screaming kids in the
background you really want to go to a place or to a room where it's gonna be a
lot quieter when you're work from home day because you don't want people to be
like oh man this person's unprofessional is so loud I can barely hear them it's
slowing down the workflow definitely don't want that that's something to keep
in mind but as far as that goes I mean work from home is a great perk from the
clinical research industry because like I said you don't have to worry about
that time commuting you tend to get more sleep people actually tend to work
longer when they're at home because you know the time goes by even faster a lot
of people wake up still at the same time they go into work and you know they get
up they get on the computer people tend to work like an hour or two longer than
they normally do when they're working from home so people are actually tend to
be more productive they tend to be happier because they don't have to worry
about that commute and it's just an overall better experience
being able to work from home I've gotta admit it's so enjoyable it breaks up
your week if you take them in the middle of the week I know some people like
taking them in the beginning of the week you know I take my different days
Wednesday is a good day Monday is a good day but you know especially on a
Wednesday in the middle of the week it's a good day to take because it kind of
breaks up the week and then you know once you're once you go back into the
office you only got two days left Thursday Friday and you're good then
it's the weekend so you know I think overall work from home days great perk
definitely should be looking to increase that more in clinical research because
people really like it and then it adds I mean the people are 100 percent remote
meaning they work from home all of the time you can really live anywhere and
you know I really like that because typically jobs are clustered to where
the offices are and that's absolutely ridiculous in the clinical research
industry for most positions because we do we do meetings on online I mean even
if most of the people are in the office it's not like we get together and go to
a room and conduct the meeting we're still logging in from our desk computers
so so hopefully there's a lot more work from home privileges in the future a lot
more positions we'll get the opportunity to do that I think so especially if we
push for it so what are your thoughts on working from home comment that down
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