Bad work habits that you can now unlearn nicely

After a thousand messages about how it should or shouldn't be, Valérie van VrouwenZaken now shares what automatically goes better. And actually, you benefit much more from that. Are you stuck at home due to the coronavirus crisis? This is what you can unlearn.

Leaving the house without breakfast
You’ve known it your whole (adult) life: the most important meal of the day is breakfast. Do you usually prefer to swap your breakfast for ten more minutes of snoozing? Skipping breakfast is now a thing of the past due to working from home. Now you can both sleep in longer (no traffic) and also start the day well with a healthy breakfast.

Read here the tastiest water combinations so that you drink enough while working from home.

Gossiping about colleagues 
Isn't it wonderful to start the morning with a cup of fresh coffee and office gossip, especially about the colleagues who flirted the longest at the Friday afternoon drinks and are now deliberately avoiding each other? Exchanging these tidbits of news is no longer possible in this time. We gossiped during school hours, and in adult life, communicating with each other is better for the interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Moreover, you can now also focus better on work and don’t have to be distracted by who is doing what with whom.

Taking the car to work while cycling is also easy
Separating waste, check. Eating leftovers instead of throwing food away, check. You might think you’re already doing well for the environment, but you still have one guilty pleasure that actually can’t be justified anymore. You cycle from home to work in an average of fifteen minutes. Yet you often catch yourself taking the car instead. Seeing your weather app might indicate it could rain this afternoon or that the wind is very strong today. Because you don’t want to arrive at work looking like a mess, you take the car for convenience – just a bit too often. By working from home, you no longer have to worry about this.

Arriving late to appointments
Do you often rush into the meeting last, with a sweaty head? While others are already sitting and enjoying their cup of coffee, you don’t have time for that and spend the first ten minutes recovering from the rush. Whether it’s a client or your own colleagues, arriving late to appointments is not done. Fortunately, with working from home, you can’t be late for appointments. So make sure you also start a video call with a fresh cup of tea or coffee.

Text: VrouwenZaken