How to Work From Home Without Getting Bored

Spicing up your home office can spark inspiration and boost productivity

A woman using a laptop on a dining room table set up as a remote office to work from home, in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2020. Joe Giddens/PA

By Morissa Schwartz

While the ongoing health crisis normalized working from home for many positions, I have worked from home my entire professional career. I have never set foot in an office, and my two companies operate entirely remotely. After a decade of remote work as a freelancer, you would think I would be bored of it, but I am not.

Here are some of my favorite tips to make remote work less mundane.

Have Background Noise

One of my favorite aspects of working from home is choosing what I do while working. Some offices do not allow employees to use headphones or listen to music during work, but you can do this when working remotely. The music I listen to at work varies from day to day: sometimes show tunes, acoustic, folk songs, or instrumental focus music.