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Keeping your private life a secret will help you build a professional image while allowing you to develop and maintain good relationships with colleagues in the company. Allowing your personal life to strongly influence how you behave will damage the way people view you at work. By setting some reasonable boundaries, exercising self-control, and separating your work life from your personal life, you will be able to maintain privacy in your private life without being viewed as human. like to live separately at work.

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Method 1 of 3: Set the line between work and life

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   Decide on a topic that you shouldn't share. If you're trying to keep your personal life from work, the first thing you need to do is set boundaries. This varies from person to person and depends on the culture of your company, as well as the work-personal-life balance you're looking for. Regardless of any rules at work, you can still set your own boundaries. Start by making a list of things you don't want to discuss with your coworker.
   • It can include topics such as love life, illness, religious and political views.
   • Think about things you are uncomfortable with or don't want to discuss with your co-worker.
   • Don't make your list public, keep it in mind so you can excuse yourself from the conversation you want to avoid.

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   Know every question that an employer cannot ask you. By law, there are quite a few questions that an employer cannot ask you.They are questions related to family background and life that can lead to racism. For example, employers are not allowed to ask about your age, or whether you have a disability, or about your marital status. If someone asks you a question of this kind at the company, you have the right not to answer. Some other questions that you don't need to answer include:
   • Are you an American citizen or not?
   • Do you use drugs, smoke, or drink alcohol?
   • What is your religion
   • Are you pregnant?
   • What is your race?

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   Cut down on every individual call in the office. If you are trying to separate your work life from your personal life, you need to avoid bringing your personal life to work. That means you need to minimize all personal phone calls and emails while at work. From time to time, you can call to make an appointment with a barber or dentist, but if people often hear you calling for private conversations, your colleague will not only eavesdrop on you, but will ask you questions. about the conversation.
   • Calling too many private desks will also make your boss upset and colleagues will think that you are not working hard.
   • If you don't want to receive work-related phone calls while at home, don't get into the habit of making personal calls while at work.

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   Should not bring internal affairs to the company. Easier said than done, but you should try not to bring personal matters to the company and maintain absolute professionalism at work. You will probably find that establishing a daily routine that marks the transition between your work and personal life will help you do this. For example, taking a walk before you go to work and after you leave work will help you separate these two areas from your life.
   • The time spent moving from home to work will help you change your mindset from your personal life to your work.
   • Similar to limiting your personal business phone calls, if you walk in the morning with a relaxed mind and do not think or talk about your personal life, your coworkers will not ask you questions.
   • If you seem tense or upset, or walk into the office while talking on the phone with your partner, don't be surprised when your coworker starts asking you questions.
   • Think of this process as trying to actively manage your work life relationship with home.
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Method 2 of 3: Maintain professional relationships at work

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   Friendly. Even if you don't want to share your private life with coworkers, you are still able to develop a good work relationship that can make your working time more enjoyable and productive. Finding a topic to chat during lunchtime that has nothing to do with discussing details about your personal life won't be difficult.
   • If someone in the company regularly talks about your personal life, or if you don't want to engage in any particular conversation, politely quit.
   • Talking about topics like sports, TV, and movies is a great way to be friendly and chat with colleagues without talking about personal matters.

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   Be delicate. When a conversation is moving into your private life, subtle distraction is a good way to go. You should avoid saying something like "Sorry, but it has nothing to do with you". Instead, gently say, "Oh, you wouldn't want to hear about it. It's boring" and then change to the topic that you are more comfortable with.
   • Distraction techniques will help you maintain a friendly relationship and stay away from specific conversation topics.
   • When you dodge and change the subject instead of ending the conversation, your co-workers won't give it much thought.
   • If you redirect the conversation to your co-workers, you will be able to avoid having to politely answer the other's questions without appearing aloof or disinterested.
   • You might say "My life is not interesting at all, what about you?"
   • If your co-workers insist on asking about your private life, you can set boundaries and let them know that you don't want to talk about it. You can say, "I know that you are very interested in me when asking about my life, and I appreciate it, but I think I shouldn't discuss it."

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   Be flexible a little bit. While it's important to have the boundaries set between your work life and your personal life, you should also try to maintain flexibility. Keeping boundaries doesn't mean you should avoid certain interactions, or isolate yourself altogether.
   • If your colleague invites you to have a drink at 5 p.m. Join them from time to time, but remember to follow the conversation topics that you are comfortable with.
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Method 3 of 3: Keep your life online

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   Beware of your social media activity. Increasingly, the biggest problem for people who want to maintain privacy in their work and personal lives is the rise of social media. People record every aspect of their life, and sometimes, they don't understand that other people can easily access this information. The first step in dealing with a problem is simply being aware of it and thinking about how your social activities might reveal parts of your private life that you want to keep private.
   • If you want to maintain a professional image online and don't want people to question your privacy, you should avoid publicly posting anything that might threaten it.
   • It includes your message and comments as well as a picture. If you want to separate your personal life from work, you need to do this both during and outside work hours.
   • Do not tweet or comment on work or colleagues on social media.
   • You can set up many different social accounts to keep your personal and professional life separate.
   • Consider connecting with coworkers at professional sites like LinkedIn, and making other sites like Facebook for family and friends exclusively. This approach will help you separate these two aspects.

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   Adjust privacy settings. If you just want to use online accounts to communicate with your friends, you can completely use social media without having to block your colleague's friend requests. You should adjust your privacy settings so that you can limit the amount of information you share with your colleagues.
   • You can control what you post online and also control other people's access to some degree.
   • But remember that once you post information online, it doesn't go away quickly.

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   Don't use work email for any other purpose. Quite a lot of our personal and work life interactions are done through email that your work email and your personal email can become one. You need to be conscious of these issues and take steps to make sure you separate them. Remember to always use work email for work and personal email for other things.
   • Set a time when you'll stop reading your work email at night and keep track of it.
   • Keeping the line between the two types of email will help you avoid having to carry work wherever you are.
   • Depending on your position, you will have to develop a strategy to properly cut off communication at work.
   • In most cases, you can't keep your work email private. Your boss has the right to read all emails sent to or out of your working email account. You should refer personal matters to a private email to avoid sharing any information that you want to keep private.
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