"Working from home meant freedom - or so I thought. No commute, no awkward small talk by the coffee machine, no one stealing my yogurt from the office fridge. Instead, it means I have office mates - ones I can't exactly fire. Worse, the man I love holds Zoom calls at high volume, monopolizes the only quiet room with a door, and colonizes the kitchen table, leaving crumbs, papers and chaos behind."
"During the workday, treat shared spaces like a workplace. Would you waltz into your colleague's cube mid-call to ask if they've seen your socks? No. Would you lean over their shoulder and borrow their charger mid-pitch? Definitely not. Apply the same logic at home. Establish "do not disturb" signals: headphones on, door closed, or even a Post-it note that says, "Currently trying to impress my boss. Please don't ruin it.""
Remote cohabitants become office mates, generating interruptions, bandwidth fights, Zoom intrusions, and competition for quiet rooms and workspace. Everyday domestic behaviors can disrupt synchronous work and create turf wars over the only private room or the main desk. Treat shared home areas like an office by using visible do-not-disturb signals such as headphones, closed doors, or notes to indicate focus time. Maintain a shared calendar for core events, list big presentations and calls, and coordinate desk and room priorities in advance to avoid dueling meetings, technical outages, and overlapping demands on limited resources.
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