Posts Tagged home office
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
Posted by admin in employees, home office, remote work on August 24th, 2010
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
We all know that successful remote work takes more than a good playlist. It requires discipline, the kind that keeps you at your desk when no one will know if you’re not there. The kind of discipline that keeps the television off and your brain switched on…
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
Posted by admin in employees, home office, remote work on August 24th, 2010
Businessweek: Seven Paths to Discipline for Remote Workers
We all know that successful remote work takes more than a good playlist. It requires discipline, the kind that keeps you at your desk when no one will know if you’re not there. The kind of discipline that keeps the television off and your brain switched on…
Chicago Tribune: A shift toward working from home
Posted by admin in home office, telework, workshifting on August 17th, 2010
Chicago Tribune: A shift toward working from home
Nationwide, a push to get more workers telecommuting could save more than $650 billion a year from cost reductions associated with less office space and utilities, gasoline and transportation, traffic-related injuries, absenteeism and worker turnover, day care, meals, clothing and commuting time as well as increased productivity…
Washington Post (blog): Rethinking the workplace in the 21st century
Posted by admin in home office, telework, workplace on July 14th, 2010
Washington Post (blog): Rethinking the workplace in the 21st century
Sometimes the sign of good leadership is an ability to see challenges as opportunities rather than roadblocks to success. Case in point: telework. It can be tempting as a manager to assume that workers who are not present are not productive. One agency head recently told one of my colleagues: “People come to the office and do nothing. I want those kinds of employees inconvenienced by having to come into the office. I don’t want them working in the comfort of their homes.”
Work Shifting – The Great Debate: Coffee Shop vs Home Office
Posted by admin in home office, remote work, workshifting on June 17th, 2010
Work Shifting – The Great Debate: Coffee Shop vs Home Office
There has long been a great debate among workshifters. The magnitude of this debate has people from either camp bitterly divided, fiercely loyal, and ready to do battle to defend their side. I speak, of course, of the great workshifting debate of coffee shop versus home office. In order to take a stance on the topic, I’m going to make a good ol’ fashioned pros & cons list of the two options, and by the end, hopefully, you’ll be able to decide for yourself which of these two options makes the most sense for your workshifting lifestyle.
The Times of India: Working-from-home and flexi-time increases efficiency
Posted by admin in employees, home office, workshifting on June 8th, 2010
The Times of India: Working-from-home and flexi-time increases efficiency
Researchers from Brigham Young University analyzed data from 24,436 IBM employees in 75 countries, identifying the point at which 25 percent of employees reported that work interfered with personal and family life. Given a flexible routine and an option to telecommute, they could clock in 57 hours per week, as against 38 hours in a regular schedule. “Telecommuting is really only beneficial for reducing work-life conflict when it is accompanied by flextime,” said lead study author E. Jeffrey Hill, a professor in BYU’s School of Family Life.
Politics Daily: Work-Life Balancing Act? Congress Says ‘No’ on Safety Net
Posted by admin in employees, home office, remote work on May 27th, 2010
Politics Daily: Work-Life Balancing Act? Congress Says ‘No’ on Safety Net
Close your eyes and picture the typical home-and-work high-wire act. For most of us it looks like this: a harried mom of two (or one, or three) coming in the house, bags of groceries in both arms, throwing off a suit jacket, peeling kids off her shins, checking her BlackBerry, trying not to let the pasta water boil over, and promising the report will get finished just as soon as the kids are asleep, dammit.
WebWorkerDaily.com: How to Manage Your Boss When Working Remotely
Posted by admin in home office, remote work, survival tips on May 6th, 2010
WebWorkerDaily.com: How to Manage Your Boss When Working Remotely
One of the biggest challenges of corporate web working is being able to demonstrate that you are at least as productive — if not more so – while working at home or in a remote office as you would be sitting in a cubicle where everyone can see you at work. This is easier to do at companies where performance is really based on results, but you still need to be able to demonstrate those results.
Chicago Tribune: Work at home? Not so darn fast
Posted by admin in home office, opinion, workplace, workshifting on April 8th, 2010
Chicago Tribune: Work at home? Not so darn fast
A friend who writes a newspaper column asked a timely question to his online network of fellow sufferers, including me. He wanted to know in this age of e-mails, the Internet, call-forwarding and Skype videoconferencing whether we prefer to work at home or in our downtown offices. I was relieved to discover that two-thirds agreed with me: The office is better.
NPR: For Telecommuters, It’s Not About Going To Work
Posted by admin in home office, telework, virtual workforce on February 23rd, 2010
NPR: For Telecommuters, It’s Not About Going To Work
There’s no longer anything novel about the way Laura Schoppe does her job. Each workday, she goes upstairs to her office above the garage of her rural North Carolina home. And surrounded by her two dogs, Zoey and Bella, she runs a multimillion-dollar company called Fuentek that helps its clients commercialize new technology.