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SAS AMOAH

At home, I work in my living room. We’ve actually got a very small space, so the options were fairly limited. So yeah, I work in my living room. I actually work on my couch, which isn’t great for your back, but I do sit in my spread lotus yogi space, and that’s really good-- with my legs crossed-- and I’ve got cushions on my back keeping my back straight.

So I have my work PC and then I have two Macs as well, and I tend to work across all three of them, and then I’ve got the TV in the background. But I find, actually, it’s a really good setup now for what I need, but it did take a bit of trial and error initially when the pandemic happened.

It was a bit of a struggle to figure out what was the best place to work in at home and what was the best seating arrangement. But after a few months, I’ve settled on one, I think, which is quite productive. In terms of managing my digital wellbeing, I try to take a break I think every two or three hours from staring at a screen.

I hadn’t realised, but I think I was suffering a bit of an adverse effect from staring at a screen for 10 hours a day. So I try to take a break I think every two to three hours, 20 or 30 minutes, just to do something else to give my eyes a bit of a break. I’ve actually also got a new set of glasses I wear that takes away, I think-- is it the blue light you get from screen sometimes?

I tend to wear those as well if I’m going to be on screen for more than one or two hours. So between that and taking the breaks, I find that that really helps. One of the things I do if I know it’s a particularly busy time and because I do a variety of roles at the OU-- so a lot of people might want to contact me for all sorts of reasons-- is I take my profile off active when it comes to online spaces. People can still contact me by email, but I know it can be very quickly overwhelming when I get a number of different calls. So that’s the good way for me of just managing the amount of contact I have with people, particularly when I know it’s going to be a really busy time. And obviously, when I do get an email, I’m in a position to contact people and get back to them at the right time for me.