It’s no wonder that we have experience in the working-world whether it’s just a mere exposure or actually living in it. No matter if you’re a child or an adult, you must be getting some work-related experience from your parents, or maybe from school. Maybe you’re asked by the school to sell some bread to gain some income in order to complete your school project. In order to successfully selling out all the bread, you need work ethics, and without you even knowing, you already had some work ethics because let’s be honest, you can’t just come up to people, offering your bread, and hope the customer just take them off your hand. No, you need technique and skills in order to do that and that applies to your work ethics. With how things have been going for the past few months like COVID-19, people have been struggling to find any work especially because they can’t get out of home. The most popular question asked by new worker and even old ones is, “How do I function efficiently by working from home?” and that is plausible because you have to communicate with others, having meetings, negotiating, all of them through a single screen on their gadgets. Just because you’re working from home, doesn’t mean you can behave as if you’re at home outside of your work-time. You still need to maintain your work ethics to make sure you won’t be one of them who are forced to be let go because of the economy.

Professionalism
You may be thinking, “Well I’m always on every meeting sessions and I always do the tasks my boss gave me, how much more do I have to do to show that I’m serious about my job.” That all can be justified but most people do all of this in their pajamas; some of them don’t even turn on their cameras. I’m sure most of you think that since they can’t see your whole body from the screen, it’s okay to wear pajamas to work meetings, and that is exactly the wrong mindset you’ve been having. Just because you’re at home doesn’t mean you can wear anything you like during work meetings because you need to respect your superior and coworker by maintaining the dress code of your workplace. The next point is punctuality. It’s pretty clear that you should never be late when it comes to work whether it’s working from home or from the office, especially from home because you don’t need to waste your time with traffic and driving. Unfortunately, some people still think this is not big of a deal because their bosses or supervisors don’t mind. With this mindset, you’ll curse your own mind by having this behavior in every workplace you will ever be. By showing professionalism, your act tells your boss that you can be left with more responsibilities which will lead to better position which eventually lead to more money.

Tolerance
In a workplace, there are bound to be different people, with different race, different backgrounds and different personalities. We have to respect each other by being tolerant with one another whether it is about their social life, their work ethics or even their religions. Most workplace has toxic community within them by having ignorant people and disrespectful people. By being tolerant, doesn’t mean that you have to support their choices regarding their lives, it just means that you accept them without judging them and build a peaceful and rewarding environment of a workplace.
By showing these work ethics, giving a positive image to your boss isn’t so hard anymore. With these, one can no longer buy their way out by saying things like, “I don’t know how to behave in this kind of setting.”

Work Professionally, Get Paid Professionally