Tips for working from home during the coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing many people to work from home. Journalist Derek Thompson joins "CBS This Morning" to give tips on how to work from home and avoid extra stress.

[katiekofemug]

This sure didn't cover the actual Work part of working from home, so here's some more tangible advice: Been working from home for over 6 years - 2 jobs from home for 2 years. Best advice is to set the 'work hours' & stick to your schedule. Keep faithful track of your time. You deserve to get paid for hours worked whether you're in an office in the world or at home. Get UP & move around every hour or so to assist with focus & physical integrity. Go walk around the house, step out on the porch, grab a healthy snack, don't forget to stay hydrated! Turn on a favorite play list or old TV shows or audio books as background noise if you aren't dealing with phone issues. Helps you not feel so isolated. Shut down the computer & turn off phone notifications at the end of the "business day" to enforce that separation of work / real life. Biggest down sides is (1)you keep on working, doing "just one more thing" and another hour or two has passed & (2)people calling with an emergency / crisis they're sure you can deal with right now, even if you're eating dinner or already in bed for the night, "you work from home, just go to the computer and do this for me!" Family *can* learn to respect the work you have to do to keep the electricity on & water running out of the pipes, not to mention the cool video games & accessories, especially if you insist. Use that crock pot to make meals you only have to serve, leftovers are your friend, and if at all possible - do not eat at the desk. Take that 30 min meal break anywhere else in your house! Working in comfy clothes & bare feet is definitely a perk IMHO. Good Luck!

[cuellar]

If I could work from home I would be so happy

[BenShimon]

Working from home is not a good situation for me because my kids are home and it is difficult to work when the house is noisy and there are a lot of distractions when your family is home while you are trying to work.

[mr.painfultruth]

Waitstaff, carpenters, or cashiers cannot "work from home". This economy will tumble, and we need a leader who's HONEST for once

[brands]

all studies have shown how much MORE productive you can be from home but yet this piece started out touting ONE entrepreneur!!! Because they say it's hard to work from home it must be that way for all???? Pleeze!

[JDiaz]

This doesnt help me. The only way I can work from home is if I can control my semi like an RC car.

[nitikalad]

Use some remote working tools like Restyaboard to work effectively from home.

[xmetalgamerx]

This is so helpful. Sometimes I do take my bosses’ replies the wrong way when texting and then I speak with them through a videoconference and bring it up, only to realize that they are totally open to my ideas. Great tips! 👍🏼

[douglasbarton]

When everyone is told to stay home, you can still order on line 60% rubbing alcohol and toilet paper

[鱼素]

Been working from home from the start of Feb. to the end of Mar. as a Chinese internet worker, things seem no difference compared to working at the office. Thanks to collaborative colleagues and handy remote working app"DingTalk Lite" produced by Alibaba. My advices are (1)FIND A WORKING CORNER and make it like an office (2)KEEP CHILDREN OUT OF DOOR kids makes much distractions which are not easy to avoid (3)MAKE PHONE CALLS INSTEAD OF MASSAGING (4) EXERCISE DURING YOUR BREAK

[sergeymamaev]

The video is very interesting. I read about it in the book '' Mental health issues in the pandemic'' by Arthur Hill and Oswald Howard at Amazon

[zoomed]

All the office staff are at home apart from the Secretary, all the blue collar workers are in grafting as usual.... guess it dosent matter if we get it.

[deelee]

Everyone don’t work from home. Good bye

[la]

I am scared that my husband works for the OC 405 Partners and expose his family every day to widen the freeway

[et]

Millions and millions of people do not, and cannot "work from home".ffs..
That elitist attitude is infuriating.

[TheOregonmccarthy]

You really can't video conference because with all of us working from home that causes bandwidth and network performance issues.

[DarthVader-uxuk]

Everyone is afraid because the stupid news is making things worse . I know we live in America and I know it’s their right to do the news but they should really be limited to what they can do right now .

[saltymedpac]

Tips for working from home? Really? Unless you can help me get a job doing so this is useless.

[AnarickTheDevil]

Good thing most of the world can just work from home... Oh wait.