Working from home is a great benefit, but it also has its challenges. Apartment Therapy offers a few tips for staying productive when your home is your office.
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Dear Lifehacker, My commute is killing me. I hate driving in to work every day, dealing with traffic, and paying for parking. I'm looking for a new job, but how can I find a job that will let me work remotely or telecommute, even a few days a week?
If you're looking to start freelancing (or already have), you're going to need to invoice your clients. Perhaps the simplest option is Billable.me, but if you want more control plus the ability to track your tasks you should check out Bunker App.
As this quote — from novelist Orhan Pamuk — illustrates, being a little eccentric can help you prime yourself to work more creatively. Sometimes the best thing is to embrace your peculiarities. Starting the day with a little fun can only be good for your creativity.
Heading to the relatives' place for a long stay? Working on a Mac that's not your own? Using the new Mac App Store's easy licensing and installation, you can create a new user account and quickly set up your favourite software.
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're working at home and trying to spark your creativity by showering, brushing your teeth, getting dressed and so on, you may not be giving yourself the head start you think.
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.
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.
Freelancing isn't something you should just jump into, but it makes sense for a good number of workers. If you're looking into, or getting started with, working on your own, here are 10 resources we think every freelancer can learn from.
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?
Even if you work from home, odds are you'll be out and about at some point during the day. Weblog WebWorkerDaily explains why it's especially important for those who work from home to keep some alternative offices in mind.
If you're lucky enough that—even occasionally—you can telecommute to your job (though web commute seems more accurate these days), you've no doubt learned that working away from the office comes with its own set of problems—and solutions.
Whether you telecommute a few days a week or work from home full time, working from home isn't the walk in the park office workers sometimes envision it to be.
Starting out as a freelancer can be an exhilarating experience, but that part ends right about when you realise you don't know where to turn next to find your gig. The FreelanceSwitch blog updates its Monster List of freelance job site to more than 150 sites of work offers and contract bidding, including a few non-English options. The best work you'll get as a freelancer usually comes from folks and firms you already know or can network with, but for filling in the monetary gaps, this list isn't a bad place to start.
Some of us work extremely hard and never have time for our personal lives, and particularly, our own families. Perhaps, however, it's time to change that. Consider this: it's pretty difficult to be productive for over 80 hours a week. Instead, take a break during the evening and focus on family time (especially during dinner). At the end of the day, you're making that money so that you can attend to your family—but your family should not be put on hold while you're hard at work. What changes have you made to emphasise family over your career? Let's hear your best moves in the comments. Balancing Work & Family
