Many of us have experienced increased blurring of our work and home roles during the COVID lockdowns with family responsibilities and work responsibilities competing for our attention at the same time. As the situation stabilises an important part of sustainable home working is having boundaries between home and work that work for you personally.<\/p>\n
Without boundaries between our work and home roles, blurring can lead to confusion and conflict when we move from one to the other. When working from home we inherently have more opportunities for work and home roles and tasks to interrupt each other. We create boundaries naturally to simplify and organize our lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t drive away from the office at the end of the day when it\u2019s in your house. The three priorities you didn\u2019t get to today are a few feet away from handling. Why not go back to the desk and polish off one more task?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Some people have very contrasted or segmented roles, where they act very differently at home than they do at work. Others have much more role integration where there is relatively little contrast between their identities at work and at home. The bigger the difference between your roles, the larger the psychological transition you need to make moving between them.<\/p>\n \u201cAt work I am pretty hard driving and assertive, I tend to get straight to the point and push for completion fast. That doesn\u2019t work out so well for me at home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n When moving between roles there are three phases<\/p>\n