Even if you could easily do your job remotely, you still face a big cultural hurdle that stands between you and your home office. If you’ve convinced your boss to let you work remotely, we want to hear how you did it.
If you work at home, you’re likely aware of the many distractions surrounding you, but keeping your focus can be pretty easy with a little advanced planning.
The key to getting your boss to put the stamp of approval on your telecommuting dreams is an excellent proposal. Sell your boss on the benefits of getting you out of the office with a well-planned proposal.
When you work from outside a traditional office, you lose the traditional boundaries of an office. Your clients, coworkers and family co-exist in your inbox, on IM, and want you available any time. Learn how to raise better fences around your work.
If you’re going to put in long hours for your job, do it from home. That’s what a new study of 25,000 IBM employees suggests, as telecommuters averaged 19 more hours per week without feeling a conflict with family life.
If you’ve always dreamed of foregoing a commute to the office and making the leap to telecommuting, productivity blog Work Awesome suggests making your boss cosy with the idea of you working from home by starting off small.
One of the first things new telecommuters like to do is work in their pyjamas just to say they’ve done it. As fun as that may be, dressing up for work will boost your productivity.
Telecommuniting seems beautiful on paper: work from home or any location you want, without the hassle of going into an office. Telecommuter Sylvia Marino explains how the day-to-day realities are quite different from the perceived fantasy.
Here at Lifehacker we regularly look at technology and tactics to make working at home easier and office designs to simplify the process. But there’s one issue that planning can’t solve: are you actually up to the task?
