Moving from a traditional office environment to a home office might be a long-awaited dream, or it could be an unexpected reality that did not involve personal choice.
Many people struggle with the transition for a number of reasons.
The biggest reason for most people is that deprived of an established, which is, a comfortable routine, productivity plummets initially, creating feelings of anxiety.
Establishing new routines will alleviate this uncomfortable feeling, but according to some researchers, it takes a minimum of 30 days to even begin to create a new pattern. It can take as long as a year until events cycle and repeat one or more times and supply that feeling of familiarity that is actually quite necessary to everyone.
Another reason that some people experience anxiety over the switch from a corporate to a home working environment are the distractions of children, spouses, pets, neighbors and other sources that were absent from the traditional office, at least for the most part.
Something that will reduce this source of anxiety is to stay aware that these new distractions are not all that different from the old ones where instead of a child needing help with putting on shoes, it was a co-worker who wanted your help in figuring out some new piece of office technology that interfered with a core task you were expected to complete.
Major change such as abandoning or being forced out of the corporate office environment to a home-based office is a major challenge to that part of the brain that thrives on established routines and effective habits. Most people can survive and surmount this challenge if they cultivate an approach of being patient with themselves as the process of adapting to a big shift in their environment supplies new routines that free the mind to focus on core objectives.