Category: Home Office
5 Ways to Get More Done At Your Home Office
When I first started working from home, I was still on someone else’s clock. I was lucky enough to have a boss who would be cool with us occasionally working in our home office. Of course, at this point, I didn’t have a home office. I had a room. SinceRead More
3 Ways to Create a Home Office
For over seven years, I devoted myself entirely to the practice of law and working as a corporate attorney. When year number eight rolled around, with its continued promises of working long, stressful hours at a thankless job, I decided to make the leap out of the legal profession andRead More
Trends: Office of the Future
In the last 50 years there have been dramatic changes in how working space has been provided to employees. Once, almost everybody who was somebody had an office and almost all of them had windows. Eventually this was winnowed down to open space design and cubicles. Now it appears weRead More
5 Steps to Be More Productive Working from Home
Most people believe that a home work environment is the ultimate luxury — a cushy position where you’re the boss, where you can wear pajamas all day and do whatever you like, whenever you like. But once the endless freedom gets stale, you’ll start to find that without structure yourRead More
How to Organize Your Home Office
We tend to ignore organizing our home office until it’s too late. As time goes on, miscellaneous items stack up in layers all around you until one day, something disappears and you realize you’re due for a cleaning. Staying organized is a big challenge, whether you clock in to workRead More
How to Get Your Boss Let You Telework
A few months ago, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made headlines when she effectively banned her employees from telecommuting. She claimed that teams perform their best work in close collaboration with one another, but other Yahoo insiders indicated a more serious problem. Namely, that employees were simply not honoring their teleworkRead More
Remote working — Yay or Nay?
The internet is awash with differing opinions about remote working, showing many businesses are divided in their views on the subject. This heated discussion was sparked by a leaked email by Yahoo! informing employees that remote working would be banned from June of this year. The internal memo said: “SomeRead More
Tax Filing Tips for Freelancers
The job market in the United States is still considerably sluggish and it is for that reason that many people have decided to work as freelancers. If you are a freelancer, you could be doing a wide variety of things to earn money. For example, there are many people whoRead More