A recent Flex Index survey of flexible working habits found that 72% of UK employers offer some form of work location flexibility for their corporate employees, with 44% offering a structured hybrid model.
For hybrid workers, The Meadows and Lancaster Grove developments offer excellent road links to Newark, Nottingham, and Lincoln, with easy access to the A46.
While working from home has many benefits, it also comes with challenges – such as blurred boundaries between work and personal life, which can create a sense of cabin fever.
To help alleviate this, Barratt and David Wilson Homes offers these top tips:
Making Use of a Spare Room
Many Barratt and David Wilson homes across Lincolnshire feature dedicated studies or workspaces, including the four bedroom Avondale property at Lancaster Grove, which has a home office. Additionally, the three bedroom Kingsville at Barratt Homes’ The Meadows development includes a convenient downstairs study.
Limiting work to one particular room can help residents separate typically relaxing spaces, like lounges and bedrooms, from daily work, reducing stress by maintaining clear boundaries between professional and personal environments.
However, in homes without a study, residents could convert a lesser-used room in the house, such as a dining room or a single bedroom into a make-shift office to further separate work and leisure.
Schedule in Downtime
In an office environment people are more inclined to take small breaks throughout the day, whether that’s grabbing a coffee or chatting with a colleague. At home these natural breaks may happen less frequently, resulting in working non-stop.
Taking short relaxation breaks like making a cup of tea and leaving the work space to drink it can help relieve overworking. Longer relaxation methods like exercising and listening to a podcast can be scheduled into evenings or lunch breaks, allowing residents to have full control and balance throughout the working week.
Let People Know You’re in the Zone
Whether in an office environment or working from home, sometimes it can be hard to get into the working mode. It’s important to balance the time spent working and the time spent talking. Placing a flag on the desk or putting on headphones can be a signal that someone is disconnecting from other distractions and concentrating on the work in front of them.
The same technique can apply in the office with work colleagues as it does at home with family distractions.
Find Your Own Balance
Every individual’s ideal work-life balance is going to be different. It’s important to remember that we are all human and balancing work, social and family life is not simple. Small daily changes can help, such as placing a work phone on do not disturb when outside of working hours, or spending lunch time away from the desk, ideally on a nearby walk, and with family or colleagues.
Martyn Parker, Sales Director at Barratt and David Wilson Homes North Midlands, said: “Finding a balance and shutting off from work is tough, especially for those working from home. Many of our properties at The Meadows and Lancaster Grove offer the space and flexibility to create an ideal hybrid working station.
“Modern living and working from home can be easy and manageable, and we hope homeowners find our guidance beneficial for improving their work-life balance.”
For more information about any properties available at The Meadows and Lancaster Grove, visit the websites or call the Barratt Homes sales team on 033 3355 8472 or the David Wilson Homes sales team on 033 3355 8473.
To view the range of properties available across the county, visit the websites at Barratt Homes in Lincolnshire and David Wilson Homes in Lincolnshire.