Managing expectations in advance of a work-home boundary violation. 

Examples: 
- Remote workers can inform household members that they are unavailable during working hours.
- Remote workers can talk to family members and agree with them that on certain hours they cannot be disturbed (unless necessary) and cannot have people enter their work rooms. 

Setting Expectations

Telling violator(s) of work-home boundaries either during or after a boundary violation. 

Confronting Violators

- Setting expectations
- Confronting violators

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- Behavioral tactics: involve using other people, such as getting help from others
- Temporal tactics: involve controlling work time, such as by blocking off segments of time for work and nonwork
- Physical tactics: adapting physical boundaries, such as by manipulating physical space
- Communicative tactics: setting expectations, such as by confronting people who violate boundaries

Four Categories of Boundary Management Tactics

Allen, T. D., Merlo, K., Lawrence, R. C., Slutsky, J., &amp; Gray, C. E. (2021). Boundary Management and work‐nonwork balance while working from home. Applied Psychology, 70(1), 60–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12300

Boundary Management and Work-Nonwork Balance While Working from Home

- Using other people
- Leveraging technology
- Invoking triage
- Allowing differential permeability
- Emulating office routine

Categories for Segmentation Strategies: Behavioral Tactics

- Controlling work time
- Finding respite
- Purposefully disconnecting
- Reducing work and home role overlap

Categories for Segmentation Strategies: Temporal Tactics

- Adapting physical and psychological boundaries
- Manipulating physical space
- Managing physical artifacts

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