Posts Tagged "Home Office"

Switching from Laundry Mode to Work Mode

Posted by on Jun 10, 2010 in Business Tips | 0 comments

Switching from Laundry Mode to Work Mode

Image by TypeFiend via Flickr My friends get pretty jealous about me having an office in my home, saying it must be cool to be able to sit around in my sweats and do all sorts of errands during the day. Well, while there are definite perks to working from home – spending nothing on gas (a big benefit in $4/gallon San Francisco) and eating a healthy lunch that I prepare – it’s important to remember the work part in the work-from-home equation. For most of us with home offices, it’s key to our success to find ways to put the “office” back in “home office.” Reduce distractions. Here’s a scenario: even though you hate doing laundry, as soon as...

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3 Things Every Home Office Worker Needs

Posted by on May 20, 2010 in Business Tips | 0 comments

3 Things Every Home Office Worker Needs

When you spend as much time as I have working with different folks in their various at-home work spaces, you start to notice some of the things that consistently are important to being a successful work-at-homer. Of course, some of the things that help people do their best work are big, obvious things, like staying organized, managing one’s time well, and the like. But I’d like to shine a light on some of the things that are smaller and more easily overlooked – but are also, in my experience, very helpful. In fact, these are things I recommend to every person I work with in a home office: Everybody needs a label maker. Labeling files, containers, and drawers helps...

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