Work from home burnout

I’ve been speaking to a lot of friends and clients lately and it appears that people starting to hit their edge with working from home. Weekends and weekdays are effectively blended into one during this quarantine. People get bored and perhaps cope with the boredom by doing more work. While I started the quarantine in good spirits, this work from home burnout has definitely set in.

Most of us are hitting that 6+ week mark of quarantine and the reality is that this isn’t likely to be over anytime soon. The planned vacations, social events, sports, etc. that I once lived for are now gone for the foreseeable future. It’s hard to get going as there’s just not a whole lot to look forward to.

In order to get through this with my sanity, I’m going to start implementing some more changes around work hours and weekend routines.

First, I need to further separate work and leisure. I have gotten bad habits of working later into the evening as I tend to hit a real productive streak right around 6pm. I need to get back to normalizing work hours better and cutting off when it’s time. There’s no office to separate work/life right now so it’s going to be a difficult initiative.

Secondly, I want to take advantage of weekends and do more. I realize that we may not have restaurants, bars, and other social activities, but we can still go on drives and do other safer outdoor activities.

It’s going to be a difficult time ahead, but I realize that we’re in this for the long-haul so I need to control what I can in order to set myself up for success.