If you’re done resisting the change and prepared to accept the new normal of working from home, it’s time to discover how you thrive in that environment.
I don’t care what it is or how much it’s bugging you. You need coffee filters. You need to pick up the dry cleaning. You need an oil change. The moment you leave your home for these errands, you’re basically screwed. You tell yourself it will take 20 minutes, but it takes an hour. And then, while you’re out, you decide to run another errand—you were in the neighborhood. Your work momentum is completely destroyed. Do your errands on the weekends or after work hours like everybody else does.
(Businessweek) — I’ve been using a smartphone for around four years now, and I have a confession to make: I’m fairly sure that during that time, my cellphone usage has, if anything, become far less productive than it had been when I had only a regular old dumbphone. But with apps, e-mail, and Internet access, […]
(Businessweek) — Some 2.8 million Americans now work permanently from home offices and a full 38 million (37 percent of the total U.S. workforce) telecommute at least once a month. For the most part, the mainstreaming of telecommuting and the arrival of the virtual or mobile office has been a positive development, both in terms […]
(AJC) — When it’s time to go to work, Pamela Fann, a national account coordinator for the Coca-ColaCo., doesn’t need to worry about monitoring morning traffic and weather reports from home to her corporate offices in downtown Atlanta or Dunwoody. Fann’s job as a 24-hour call-center coordinator begins once she powers up her home-office computer or picks […]