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Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the

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Speaker 1: new world of work, where location and hours are more

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Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is about how

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Speaker 1: to handle weekend work without well completely losing your weekend.

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Speaker 1: One of the hazards of working from home is losing

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Speaker 1: the boundaries between work and the rest of life. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people have discovered this over the past few months.

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Speaker 1: One survey from j DP found that of people newly

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Speaker 1: working from home, a majority reported working on nights and

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Speaker 1: weekends more frequently. Sometimes this is because people's managers don't

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Speaker 1: observe boundaries, but other times it's because, well, hey, you're

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Speaker 1: already at your workplace. It seems easy enough to get

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Speaker 1: caught up on email. You have downtime when you'd otherwise

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Speaker 1: be watching t V, and so, well, that's fine. I

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Speaker 1: tracked my time, and I know that I often work

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Speaker 1: on weekends, my weekdays can be interrupted, and if my

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Speaker 1: kids are busy on weekends, well, time is time. However,

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Speaker 1: you might want to be a little judicious about it.

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Speaker 1: So here's how to work from home on weekends without

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Speaker 1: spending your entire weekend working at home. First, make yourself

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Speaker 1: a very clear priority list. Don't work just to work.

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Speaker 1: What do you hope to get done before Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: Weekends can be a good time for longer term or

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Speaker 1: speculative projects, or if you're behind because of a midweek emergency.

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Speaker 1: They can also help you stay on track. But you

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Speaker 1: won't get through a one thousand email backlog over a weekend,

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Speaker 1: so don't set that as a goal. Maybe just return

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Speaker 1: anything you intend to return from the last week and

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Speaker 1: let anything before that go. On a recent weekend, after

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Speaker 1: returning from a few weeks at the beach, my weekend

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Speaker 1: goal was to record ten short podcast episodes. When I

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Speaker 1: was done, I was done. Second, give yourself a window

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Speaker 1: for doing these tasks. This serves a few purposes. First,

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Speaker 1: work expands to fill the available space. Were more efficient

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Speaker 1: when space is more limited. Second, it keeps work from

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Speaker 1: always being an option. That way, you don't feel guilty

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Speaker 1: when you relax or hang out with your family. There's

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Speaker 1: a time for work, namely Sunday evening from four to

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Speaker 1: seven pm, and now is not that time. Then do

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Speaker 1: what you need to in order to make your working

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Speaker 1: be okay with the people around you. If you've got

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Speaker 1: young kids, your spouse is not automatically obligated to cover,

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Speaker 1: especially if he or she covers more of the work week. Two,

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Speaker 1: what would make it worthwhile to him or her? Maybe

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Speaker 1: you cover an equivalent number of four hours for your partner,

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Speaker 1: or give this person a few free hours to do

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Speaker 1: personal projects. Your kids might be more amenable to your

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Speaker 1: work session if they know you're planning to take them

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Speaker 1: to the work right afterwards. A significant other might be

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Speaker 1: okay with you working Saturday if Sunday is open. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you figure this out. Finally, realize you may not

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Speaker 1: have to work on weekends. I've sometimes fallen into the

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Speaker 1: habit of assuming I can get caught up over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: so I don't press his hard on Thursday and Friday.

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Speaker 1: If you view weekend work as more of a last

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Speaker 1: resort or only for big projects, not day to day stuff,

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Speaker 1: this can light a fire under you to use real

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Speaker 1: work hours. You spend a bit less time surfing the

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Speaker 1: web and a bit more time getting stuff done. That's

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Speaker 1: a smart idea, whether you work on weekends or not.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura, Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's the succeeding in the new Corner Office. The New

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