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Have You Mastered Time Management? How Remote Work Uprooted Routines with Wharton's Michael Parke

January 26, 2024 / 01:00

This episode discusses self-management, time management, and the impact of the pandemic on work routines. It highlights the challenges of adapting to remote work and finding new structures at home.

The conversation emphasizes how the pandemic forced many individuals to rethink their daily routines. The shift from a structured office environment to a home office created new distractions and required a reallocation of time and focus.

Listeners hear about the importance of discipline and how to create effective work habits in a remote setting. The discussion touches on the balance between work and personal life when working from home.

TLDR

The episode covers self-management and adapting to remote work during the pandemic.

Episode

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I think that instead of time management I often even like to broaden it out to self-management right and when you have
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structure which we had a lot of in terms of going to work you have your commute you get to work you have an office you
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have a routine and then when the pandemic just sort of changed that for so many people where you have to find a
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new structure at home you have different distractions you have some less distractions because you don't have
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colleagues but you might have kids you might have a lot of other devices at your house that you may not have had
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access to at work it was relearning how to find routines and structure and manage your time at a home office
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especially if you weren't used to that especially if you didn't work at home
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before the pandemic so I think it really radically shifted how people figured out
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how to be disciplined how to do their work and how to allocate their time in a different space in a different way once
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we shifted a lot to remote work

Episode Highlights

  • Adapting to Remote Work
    The pandemic forced many to find new structures and routines at home.
    “It was relearning how to find routines and structure.”
    @ 00m 33s
    January 26, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • The pandemic radically shifted how people figured out discipline.
    Have You Mastered Time Management? How Remote Work Uprooted Routines with Wharton's Michael Parke

Key Moments

  • Pandemic Shift00:15
  • New Distractions00:19
  • Remote Work Challenges00:54