The classroom hour

Endless hours at the computer are not good for us, but a virtual work environment makes it easy to move from one online meeting to the next without stop. One way to help stop this unhealthy habit it to adopt the “classroom hour.” In order to facilitate moving from one class to the next, most schools and colleges define a “classroom hour” as 50 minutes. If you develop the habit of thinking of hour-long meetings as 50 minutes or half-hour meetings as 20-minute meetings, you will more easily build in breaks for the eyes, body, and mind to refresh throughout the day. Some calendar programs, such as Outlook, even have pre-programmed settings so that an “hour” is scheduled in a way to build in this transition time. Set your clock, phone, or computer to “classroom time” and give yourself time to recharge throughout the day.

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