A Guide for Working Mums – The Path to Success Through Thoughtfully Crafted Home Office Extensions
As a working mum, you’ll know just how challenging striking the perfect balance between motherhood and a professional career can be, and you’re certainly not the only one. According to the latest census results, over 75% of mothers with children dependent on them are working.
Every job and child brings different challenges but there are some ways that you can set yourself up to have the best chance of being successful. This includes working while your child doesn’t need you, taking regular breaks and creating a carefully crafted home office extension.
The latter is the focus of this guide and we’ll explain how a home office extension can optimise your working day, allowing for greater success and productivity.
The advantage of a home office
The global COVID-19 pandemic meant home working became a practice that still exists today. While some businesses have gone back to traditional office work, roughly 40% of UK workers continue to work from home at least once a week and that brings a whole host of benefits – particularly for mums. These include:
- Get to spend more time around your kids
- Flexible home working schedules let you work around your kids, so you can take them to and from school
- Save money on commutes, which can be reinvested into your children’s lives
- You can work where you want, so you can live near great schools to send you children to
- Better health and wellbeing by spending time in a more relaxing environment than the business’ office
How do home office spaces boost your working ability
As well as benefits outside of the job, working from home also brings a range of advantages for how you work, including:
- Better productivity
- Fewer distractions from colleagues
- No commuting, so you can get more rest to boost your alertness
- Better mental health from having a good work/life balance
- Improved motivation
Designing your space
For total productivity while working at home, your office should be designed to promote good working practices. Some essentials you need for good productivity include an ergonomic chair, good lighting and a laptop raiser. Your space shouldn’t feel too cramped either, so consider getting the right renovation and extension insurance and increasing the size of your home office to give you all the room you need.
By enhancing the size, you can fit all your office storage, large desks and big windows for lots of natural lighting but you can also add areas in the room that can be used for motherhood duties. This could be clothes storage or even a nappy changing station if you want to blur the lines between your mum and work duties.