A break is a natural part of any working process for any employee. Breaks are there to keep us from being overwhelmed by work, or from getting burnt out from our job altogether. This is even more important in the current situation since a lot of companies now rely heavily on remote work.
At first, work from home might seem like a dream – before you realize it’s not all great, and you often forget to have breaks in the first place, since your home becomes your workplace and you can’t just stand up and leave it when you’re done with your daily workload.
Additionally, a lot of companies and employees work on a tight schedule, with everyone’s meetings and reports being planned days in advance – which makes planning breaks even harder, since changing schedules all the time is unacceptable.
And that’s not just about employees, either – it’s not uncommon for kids or students to use scheduling applications like MS Teams, and face the same problem of not having breaks between classes or lectures, which is proven to be detrimental for productivity and learning, at the very least.
Luckily enough, there are ways of solving this particular problem, especially when it comes to the context of MS Teams as the main scheduling application. One possible solution is to plan your breaks ahead manually – but it’s often tedious and takes even more of your free time.
This is where you’ll probably need an application that can do it for you – and a good example of such an application is MakeSomeBreak. It’s a free MS Teams app that plans your breaks for you in a semi-automated mode – and you can customize the exact specifics of your breaks, as well.
MakeSomeBreak allows for customization of your meeting time (or the total runtime of several meetings, after which you want your break to be scheduled), as well as the length of the break and also the ability to exclude specific events from being counted as “meetings” (for example, lunch appointments).
The existence of a “free” price tag allows every MS Teams user to try it out for themselves, no matter if they’re employees, students, kids, or anyone else. It’s a great way of making your work/studying from home at least slightly less tiring and try to maintain a lifetime balance.