🎒 Microlesson

🪞 Reflect

When does your workday truly end—and what makes it hard to disconnect earlier? 

💡 Concept

In remote work, boundaries don’t draw themselves. Without a commute or the natural cues of an office—like coworkers packing up and clearing out—it’s easy for work to stretch into personal time. Setting and keeping clear boundaries helps you stay energized, focused, and present in both work and life. A few intentional practices can transform remote work from ever-present to part of a sustainably balanced life.

📅 Set core meeting hours for distributed teams.

Core meeting hours are periods of time during the workday reserved for essential team meetings. Setting core meeting hours helps to streamline communication and collaboration among team members, and helps everyone establish and hold boundaries, especially in teams that span multiple time zones. Learn more here. 

💪 Set strong boundaries to prevent overworking.

People who work from home are especially susceptible to overworking because the lines between work and home are so easily blurred. That’s why remote workers need to set and hold strong boundaries. Learn more here. 

🚧 Create a Team Boundaries Agreement.

Your team can set universal boundaries that protect the entire team’s well-being. Working together, create a documented understanding of expectations for team members with regard to issues such as scheduling and meeting norms. Learn more here. 

🫸 Push back when your boundaries are stretched.

Boundaries scripts are written frameworks that team members can use to proactively maintain boundaries or respond when someone oversteps. You can use these scripts as guidelines for crafting an email or starting a conversation to restate your boundaries firmly and professionally. Learn more here.

🎬 Take Action

• Choose one of the actions listed in this microlesson and commit to trying it. 

• Complete your action within the next two weeks. 

• Reflect on the impact that your action has. 

• Share your results.

🧠 Keep Learning

Learn more about how to develop a team boundaries agreement in Leadplaceless. 

✅ Check In

🎁 Learn with your team!

Refer our weekly microlessons to your team members to learn as a group! Just follow the instructions in the section below to get started.