Tips on how to get dressed for a productive WFH day
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Even if you’ve mastered the art of turning on and off mute for group conference video calls or fine tuned your home office workstation for optimized productivity, surely there’s still plenty of room for improvement when it comes to mastering the art ofPersonally, I had little experience working from home prior to the coronavirus pandemic and it has been a learning process and a daily experiment.
Many have been working remotely for four months, and returning to the office still seems far off for many who have been able to adequately and comfortably work from home. It’s time to look to the experts, in other words those who have always worked remotely, to ask advice. We’ve turned to four writers and editors to get some tips on how to successfully, stylishly, for the long haul.
or applying a little bit of makeup each morning, getting dressed will help you “mentally switch over to work mode” according to Strampe.own beauty assistant, Akili King suggests a few strokes out Pat McGrath’s mascara or drops of Perricone MD’s No Makeup foundation serum to achieve this. Full-time freelance fashion writer and editor, Ray Lowe, used to scoff at the idea of making an effort to get dressed to work from home. But now, Lowe says that, “a year and a half into my freelance career and I can admit I was sorely wrong”. Even if you have no plans to leave the house that day, getting ready each morning will never leave you in a scramble for last-minute video calls or Zoom meetings. Stampe jokes, it’s better to be a “working human” rather than a “couch potato with a laptop”.
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