Every thing has its own time. Time for lockdown and time for opening up. If duty calls, do it. Just perform all tasks after go for leisure like watch TV

Thank you for such valuable comments Bruce Robin Nyamweha and Humberto Costa

Tanvir Singh

The fact is that the same version can not and should not be assigned to this management. Some people have to draw clear boundaries between their personal and professional lives. But not only did the other group not need such a demarcation, but they had to pursue a combination of work and personal life. Good luck

Managing personal and professional life during the pandemic has been a challenge. We learned many things and organized ourselves more

Thank you for your valuable comments Sara Thamer Hadi , Majid Jangizehi ,and M.K. Tripathi

There are many actions that employees, managers and business owners should take in their normal everyday lives to protect and nurture their mental health. And these still apply in the current circumstances.

Be realistic about what can be achieved. Keep the hours you work in check and be mindful of work-life balance. Stay in touch with family and friends. Eat well, prioritise sleep and stay physically fit. Try and find time to switch off from technology. Monitor warning signs of poor mental health. Reach out to mentors and colleagues for support. Maintain interests outside work. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Access information and support services.

Don’t be too hard on yourself

It’s not easy to work from home and being forced to do so by a pandemic is not an ideal way to start. If you get any work done at all, you are doing really well. The most important thing is that you are happy and healthy and, if you are not, there is no shame in asking for help. Your family, friends, colleagues and health-care professionals are just a phone call away. You might be in isolation, but you are not alone.

Take time to cope with the stress. Prioritize and set up daily goals. Be flexible and open, and ask for support

Remember to exercise and get fresh air

I go for a walk outside once a day, as currently permitted (with some restrictions). If you are not able to go outside, just open your windows and try your best to do some light exercise at home. A pandemic is not a good time to start a strenuous new form of exercise — you don’t want to have to see a doctor — but it is important to do something appropriate to your current fitness level. There are a lot of free resources online.

Prioritize social interactions

At home, you won’t just bump into your colleagues in corridors, at the coffee machine or in the lab. Don’t underestimate the importance of these interactions, both for your own mental well-being and that of others, and for your work. Schedule times to catch up with your colleagues, friends and family. I try to schedule such catch-ups for the afternoon, because I find I am more productive in the morning.

Take regular breaks

Just like at the office or in the lab, remember to get up and move around. I try to limit the time I spend reading the news and on social media during my breaks, particularly at the moment, because reading the news on coronavirus makes me feel anxious. Keep yourself hydrated and try to eat healthily. I make sure I have a good lunch break away from my work. It’s very tempting to snack all day when you work from home, but it’s not healthy in the long run.

This is a pertinent discussion.

Firstly , the Globe as a whole , now understands that we are in front of a tremendous danger.

So, it is very esay to manage professional life in this situation as everyone is under the same situation.

So, the professional rules and practices are to be reformed and it is done in most of the spheres as we all know that life is the first thing to give priority.

Next, I want to say something about personal life.

Many people are suffering from psychological problems in this situation.

Basically, the term " social distancing " is a negative term for life leading.

We beed keep a safe physical distance to avoid spreading of the virus. This doesn't mean socially we are to be detached.

This term, I think , is creating a bad psychological impact on human mind.

There are to many ways to keep up good relationship with each other which can give relief to our life . We have to change some food habits, living style and so on , but that is not that must to change our mental peace.

Those who wants to utilise themselves to good works like research works, reading , writing books or articles can easily spend time with sound mental and physical health and can utilise the time in productive manner. Many people have done this and continuing.

So, I feel , only some behavioural change is not that much tough to manage our lives.

But , without doing anything, just waiting for the end of the pandemic , is difficult and also harmful to personal life as well as the society.

Thanks

N Das

Tanvir Singh

Dear Researcher,

This is a beautiful question. Managing the professional and personal life has become very difficult during this pandemic. To a huge extent this is because the geographical place for these two segments of lives became the same.

In my personal life, I was trying to demarcate the geographical areas and timings. I tried not to fetch my professional worries into my living room. I also tried to not fetch my personal worries in my 'residential office'. I don't know if I am right or wrong, but I have always given more importance to my personal life. As a result of that, I enjoyed a lot of gains in my professional life.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

Societies develop day after day in various fields, especially administrative, so what technology provides facilitates work

Agreed with you Humberto Costa

Agreed with you Faraed Salman yours suggestions are highly admirable

shahin mardani

I agreed with you both Anamitra Roy and Nityananda Das, as the points mentioned by you both are totally impressive. As the Nityananda Das is talking about the mindset or psychological state of the person, yes the social distancing creates a negative impact on our life. Due to this everyone has to start fearing in taking ith even their neighbor hood for such instant that whether or might be they are the carrier of such virus.

Yes agreed with you and appreciates your effort, Anamitra Roy that you separate both the things in a nice manner. But as I experienced that when you enjoying with your family and suddenly even your boss calls you for such unconditional work then you definitely distract from that moment and start doing what your boss said to you.

So I think I talking it is very easy to say that we can maintain the balance between these two but in practice, it is very difficult.

Regards

Very well said Yousif Yaqoob Shahtha

What kind of table you generally drawn and how Alaa Ali

How can you justify your statement benefits of this pandemic is more than its harms, as due to this pandemic everything has been changed and still changing right from the thinking, economy, productivity, relations, ethics, and morality. Where is the positive in this pandemic? Mahmoud Elkazzaz

Tanvir Singh

Dear Professor,

What you have said is a very valid point. If I am enjoying with my spouse and children, and then my boss calls me, obviously then the segregation of my life into professional and personal zone will get disturbed. I must admit here, that in such a case, I also get disturbed.

You know, when I was younger, the moment my boss gave me a problem, I would have tried to solve that. Things changed when I met a person. At that time, I was working for a legendary vocational training institute. That gentleman observed me and told me to not solve the problems but to learn to stay with the problems. I started practicing that. I must say that I have not been able to learn that. I am still trying. The day when I am able to learn that fully, I will not get disturbed when my boss calls me in my personal time. I will keep that in my mind and complete my time in my personal zone. Then go back and start working when I would be in my professional zone. This is similar to the "switch on and switch off" technique. I am still now in the process of learning it.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

Very important and stimulating topic for discussion that provoked several valuable challenging and informative comments. Following to see more of it.

Thank you for appreciating Lamia Mustafa Al-Naama and Anamitra Roy

Thank you for your wonderful contribution to this thread of discussion Omar H. Abdalla

Dear professor,

Personally, I chose what was important professionally to myself, what I loved doing and what practice I loved most. I chose the categories of patients I wished to see, according to economic factors that would permit time-efficiency, according to satisfaction of work well done and what permitted me to have a balance in life permitting to sleep well and have some family time. In these times of crisis, analysis and choices are important to make and being happy with those choices is what's most important to my opinion.

Lucie

Thank you for your wonderful contribution to this thread of discussion Lucie Drouin

CREATE A DEDICATED WORKSPACE

Most professional matters are managed by social media contacts.

You can give a saying:

Patience and a little effort

In our reality, everyone will endure

Regards, Sergey Viktorovich Pushkin

Thank you very much for your valuable comment on this thread Nirmala S.V.S.G Isam Alkhalifawi Sergey Viktorovich Pushkin and Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak

using digital technology as much as possible for ur personal and professional development.

There’s a lot to process when work and living conditions are changing on the daily. So what can you do to balance your mental health when everything around you is changing?

It’s understandable to feel unsettled at this time. Whether you’re a business owner who employs staff or a sole trader, a manager at an organisation or an employee, your workplace may be facing difficult times and it’s normal to consider what that means for you. https://coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au/impacts-on-my-work/working-from-home/maintaining-work-life-balance-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html

There are many actions that employees, managers and business owners should take in their normal everyday lives to protect and nurture their mental health. And these still apply in the current circumstances.

Be realistic about what can be achieved. Keep the hours you work in check and be mindful of work-life balance. Stay in touch with family and friends. Eat well, prioritise sleep and stay physically fit. Try and find time to switch off from technology. Monitor warning signs of poor mental health. Reach out to mentors and colleagues for support. Maintain interests outside work. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Access information and support services. Consult your company’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provider, if you have one. https://coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au/impacts-on-my-work/working-from-home/maintaining-work-life-balance-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html

Prioritise to perform. Are you a master of prioritsation? If not, now is a good time to learn it and do yourself a favour, else WFH becomes an endless series of tasks, sudden commitments and work spillovers into evenings and holidays. Start with a task list. First, complete those where your output/ feedback affects your colleague’s/ boss’s work else you will deal with crisis requests where you will pause everything else. Next, check out upcoming deadlines and commitments to the most important people and projects. Take at least one step everyday and avoid sleepless nights later. Club all thinking and creative tasks for quiet times when there are no emails or calls expected. Club email checking and response to fixed time slots in a day. Now the balance time during peak team working hours is available for the rest of your task list, team calls and other interruptions. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/wealth/earn/how-to-balance-work-and-personal-life-while-working-from-home/amp_articleshow/77819171.cms

The best investment of your time as a remote leader is to help set up measurable targets and deadlines for each member in consultation with them. Without face time in an offi ce, the measurement system helps maintain direction and avoid frustration for both you and your team. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/wealth/earn/how-to-balance-work-and-personal-life-while-working-from-home/amp_articleshow/77819171.cms

Thank you very much for your wonderful contribution N. S. Abegunasekara Chinaza Godswill Awuchi