If you have the opportunity to telecommute regularly, or even work from home every now and again, the temptation can be strong to just put your feet up and forget about work unless you have to check in occasionally, clear out your inbox or dial into a meeting. Occasional slacking is fine, but there’s no faster way to get your remote work privileges revoked than to keep that up. Here’s how to resist the urge and stay motivated, even if there’s no one looking over your shoulder.
Home office veteran David Tate knows a thing or two about working from home without going insane, but there’s one management challenge that can be particularly tricky: No matter how sound your relationship, a work-from-home lifestyle can be tough on your significant other. Here’s how he handles it.
So you’ve decided to work from home. As a rookie veteran of working without a traditional office for one year I’m here to tell you that it is the greatest and worst thing that can happen to your work life — much like being transferred to a glitter-packing facility. What follows is a quick two-minute guide of what you need to know before you take your pants off and turn up those old Hootie and the Blowfish albums.
We’ve covered the benefits of coworking — the practice of sharing an office with random strangers rather than working by yourself at home — before, but a new European survey shows that the concept might be better for you than previously thought.
If you work from home, or even if your employer provides you with a notebook, it might be tempting to start working from your desktop machine. Usually you benefit from more performance, a comfy chair, customisation through hotkeys and shortcuts and all the other perks the come from tailoring your home PC into the most productive device it can be. If you do get taken by this desire, I would urge you to resist it.
One of the obvious potential benefits of the National Broadband Network (NBN) is that it should make it easier to work from home or adopt more flexible hours. A new survey suggests that Australian employers might take time to adjust to that idea, with just 20% saying they saw the ability to offer a different employment model as a major potential benefit of the high-speed network.
