Tag: work from home
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
How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings
The first day of my first office job, my boss told me plainly, “There are two types of people in the business world. That guy who sets up all of the meetings and the rest of us, okay?” He was no fan of wasting time, and it rubbed off onRead 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 Workplace Trends to Watch
There are always new trends and themes that emerge in the workplace every year. The most successful people catch onto these trends and ride them to even greater success. Of course, not every office trend may apply to your situation, but that doesn’t mean they won’t in the future. ItRead More
5 Tips For Working from Home
Technology in today’s corporate world has opened up new doors to telecommuters everywhere. The ability to interact instantly and submit quality work via the internet has fueled a trend where more and more employees are taking their work from the corporate office to a home office environment. It is importantRead More
5 Ways to Stay Productive When Working from Home
As a freelance writer turned community manager, I’ve spent entire weeks working from my couch in my pajamas. For many it sounds appealing — no commute time to wrestle with, no wardrobe requirements and no one standing over your shoulder requesting updates on your progress. But I’ve also found thatRead More
How to Get More Freelance Writing Work
When I jumped headfirst into the world of freelance writing, learning how to get more freelance work was the most daunting task I had. I compiled a list of job boards I would check on a daily basis, but what I quickly learned was that my search couldn’t start andRead More