Stress-free home office? This is how it can work!

2020/04/17 15:30

In the home office, familiar daily routines and structures are eliminated. Instead, flexibility and willingness to compromise are necessary. Especially when several people live in the household and have to coordinate with each other. We explain how smart solutions can be used to find the right balance and separation between work and private life.

Home office does not have to end in chaos
Whining children, clumsy pets that pollute the floor, or an annoyed partner can make concentrated work in the home office difficult . If unforeseen turbulences such as missed deadlines or late deliveries are added, working at home quickly becomes a stress trap. After all, hardly anyone can keep track of it, let alone meet all requirements at the same time - be it privately or for work. Fortunately, there is intelligent technology in the smart home that not only ensures order, but also more comfort and concentration.

We show how the work in the networked home office is fundamentally changed and decisively simplified.

The smart home ensures a relaxed start to the day
When the smell of fresh coffee floats through the apartment, your own favorite music ensures a gentle awakening and the blinds automatically raise, then a new day begins in the smart home . If you prefer to start the day with a yoga session instead of a hot drink, you can of course alternatively combine meditation music with suitable lighting scenarios.

If you use a professional smart home system such as eNet SMART HOME , you can define these scenarios according to your wishes and daily routines. What temperature should the heating have? Do you want to let the first rays of sunshine into your apartment or do you prefer to stay behind closed blinds? All integrated devices can easily be used in the specially configured scenes.

If residents also have a voice assistant such as Amazon's Alexa or the Google Assistant, they can be informed about current news or personal appointments while they are getting up - without having to use their smartphone. This is even more useful if the voice assistant can also be used to control the smart home devices.

Optimal lighting increases productivity in the home office
The smart lighting control at home ensures a pleasant working atmosphere by increasing concentration through individual color combinations. If you only want to use a small desk or floor lamp, you can use it e.g. B. shine with Bulbs from Philips Hue in 16 million color shades. However, the work lighting only becomes really comfortable when it is integrated into an intelligent system. Combined with a voice assistant or motion detectors, for example, the eNet SMART HOME always ensures optimal lighting. Even existing lights can be used by the eNet SMART HOME service partners can be easily integrated on request and then remotely controlled from anywhere - this eliminates the annoying necessity of leaving the desk.

Voice assistants manage to-dos and appointments in the home office
The home office time is particularly relaxed with a personal assistant at the side. You don't have to go looking for a job, with a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant , the personal assistant comes digitally for little money.

Because Amazon voice assistant Alexa is e.g. B. also integrated in inexpensive devices such as the Echo Flex for around 30 euros. With it, to-do lists or appointments can be saved on demand or queried by voice command.

If you have also integrated Alexa in a correspondingly configured eNet SMART HOME , you can use a voice command to lower the blinds from your desk when the sun is dazzling or adjust the room temperature when requested .

The lunch break routine helps you switch off and relax
The more turbulent the morning was, the more important distraction and relaxation are during the lunch break. So that it does not go down, we recommend taking a rest phase at the same time every day and developing your own routine for it. This can include the following procedures: A kettle heats up the water for an afternoon tea in a timer-controlled manner, while the music system with meditative sounds ensures an optimal power-napping atmosphere.

Alternatively, a sporty version is also possible. Amazon's voice assistant, for example, offers its own fitness functions that can be activated free of charge. These include the Bundeswehr's KSK boot camp , the plank exercise in the forearm support or the PowerTraxx activity tracking.

With Alexa, telephone or video conferences are particularly easy to implement
If you want to ask a colleague a short question, you can call their Echo loudspeaker by voice command or start a video conference using an Echo display. It is sufficient to simply say: "Call Echo from [Name]." On the other hand, speed dial numbers, emergency numbers or international numbers cannot yet be dialed using normal Alexa speakers.

For larger companies, Amazon's Amazon Web Service offers the opportunity to use voice control efficiently with many people at work or in the home office. This means that everyone involved can link their email accounts or calendars to the voice assistant and can particularly easily plan or conduct joint meetings. In addition to classic conference calls via Echo speakers, video meetings can also be implemented via Echo Show Display.

Even company-internal tasks or specific answers to customer questions can be created at Amazon Business and used across the board. The service is free in the first 12 months, after which the costs can vary widely depending on the range of functions used.

Tip: So that the youngsters don't burst into a meeting, it helps them to deal with funny Alexa questions or Siri Easter Eggs . Alexa also offers countless interactive games and puzzles against boredom .

Household robots also take care of annoying everyday tasks
If you do not want to continue with housework after office work, you can simply delegate annoying jobs such as vacuuming or window cleaning to a robot. Household robots are already taking care of carpets, hard floors or windows while their owners are still working. Many of the intelligent robots are available from around 250 euros and can be operated via timer, app or voice assistant.

Our 3 favorites are:

Roborock S6 (robot vacuum with wiping mode)
iRobot Braava jet m6 (floor mopping robot)
Sichler PR-041 V3 (window cleaning robot)

Start and enjoy relaxed after work
After all professional tasks have been mastered, it is time to switch off from work physically and mentally. For this it is helpful to switch off the laptop or computer completely and (if possible) to remove them from the field of view. For example, by placing the laptop on a shelf or closing the door to the study.

Because after work, the smart home reveals its entertainer qualities and ensures z. B. with colored mood lights, a WLAN socket controlled popcorn machine and a Smart TV for cinema feeling. Anyone who owns an eNet SMART HOME system can even enjoy Alexa or Google Assistant compatibility and doesn't even have to reach for their smartphone to start the cinema scene.

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Stress-free home office? This is how it can work!