Working from a Home Office Successfully, by Cecelia Jernegan
(ISBN#: 9781432751456)
Getting out of those bunny slippers and creating a routine in your home office might not be as easy as you think. A lot goes in to setting up an effective home office, and, if you can believe it, purple cows are involved. Cecelia Jernegan has published a self help booklet (48 pages) about home offices using best practice tips acquired from people who have actually had to work from home over the past 10 years. She tells us all about "The Purple Cow" theory, as well as what you should look out for when you first set up your home office.
When preparing to become a teleworker, says home office guru Cecelia Jernegan, "people don't realize that the biggest issue is limited social interaction. People that are working from home full time find it very difficult not to be in an office environment where there's a lot of social interaction!"
Also, she adds, "when you are working from a home office, you're able to get things done quicker, faster, better and smarter because you don't have that social interaction. So it's kind of like a two edged sword!" The real key to making teleworking work for you is to be results focused.
Title:101 Tips for Telecommuters Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Manufacturer: Author(s): Debra A. Dinnocenzo ISBN: 1576750698 Price: List $15.95, Lowest: $2.60
The title says most of it all, but the detail inside does indeed say it all. Besides the how tos of the book, there are Tips on every page. Be sure to read the Telecommuting Implementation Guide on p.217. Worth every penny.
An especially timely book for the unfriendly economic times we are in. It's for all parents (not only moms) who have decided to stay at home and to work from home to make cash to supplement the family income.
The book is full of practical advice needed to keep skills, contacts, and resumes fresh; to earn serious money while working primarily from home so you are equipped to transition back to professional part-time or full-time employment when they're ready.
Increasingly, employers are embracing a flexible work environment, which includes offering their knowledge workers both a part-time Work@Home and/or a full-time with flexible hours work option.
Research from the Corporate Executive Board found that, amongst 50,000 global workers surveyed, work-life balance ranks only second to compensation; also, that those with positive work-life experiances were 21% more productive.
Employers with flexible work policies can make themselves an "employer of choice", especially for the 5.6 million stay-at-home moms and the 159,000 stay-at-home dads. Being identified as such an employer is very attractive for employers that are in the process of repatriating jobs that have been sent off-shore - the rapidly growing Work@Home customer support agent industry is benefiting hugely from this successful 'on-shoring' business model.
Well worth the read from a career-planning strategist and writer for AllExperts.com.
When telecommuting, sometimes you have to laugh or you'll cry - now you can cry with laughter at the insightful humour that Brian Basset voices through his work from home comic character Ad@m - brilliant!
Title:Dot Calm : The Search for Sanity in a Wired World Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Manufacturer: Author(s): Debra A Dinnocenzo, Richard B Swegan, Debra A. Dinnocenzo, Richard B. Swegan ISBN: 157675152x Price: List $14.95, Lowest: $2.97
Practical solutions on how not to be overwhelmed by 24/7 unrelenting connectivity to your work caused by technology. Learn: how to have a life other than one cluttered by electronics, how to continue to be a member of the human community, and how to manage your time between work and your personal life. Great read.
If you are working on a press release, a proposal, a white paper, new web content, putting together copy for an ad, contributing to a blog or composing an email, do not write a word till you have read this book!
It presents brilliant examples of how punctuation, when used in different ways, can change the meaning of prose, a paragraph, a sentence or a short phrase. Even the book's title (up to the colon) is a perfect example - read it without the comma and you'll see what I mean.
This book should be required reading for all. Buy it NOW!
Title:Making Telecommuting Happen Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Manufacturer: Author(s): Jack M. Nilles ISBN: 0442018576 Price: List $25.95, Lowest: $5.88
Jack Nilles coined the word Telecommuting back in the early 1970s and has been its main luminary and evangelist ever since - thank you Jack! If you have not yet bought a book on telecommuting, make it this one; a painless read with a bunch of easy-to-understand graphics and fun cartoonish drawings to help make his points. Buy it - the title is true!
THE soup to nuts primer on what you need to do to secure your home office, your work-related data and information, how to protect your home, yourself & your family from your office equipment.
Title:Telecommuting for Dummies Publisher: For Dummies Manufacturer: Author(s): Minda Zetlin ISBN: 0764553712 Price: List $21.99, Lowest: $1.20
About time! -- the inevitable Dummies primer of an activity that is exploding, mostly under the radar of employers .... whether they are intentionally turning a blind eye to it or it's just happening as "guerrilla telecommuting" (a risk management issue that needs to be dealt with - see elsewhere on the site for guidance on how to bring it under control.)
Minda (its Author) has created a Primer. A supplement is now needed, because technology & law have moved on.
Title:Telecommuting for Lawyers Publisher: American Bar Association Manufacturer: Author(s): Nicole Belson Goluboff ISBN: 1570735549 Price: List $49.95, Lowest: $76.59
Nicole writes explaining the wheres, whys, tools & legal aspects of working away from the traditional office, both from Law Firms' and their Lawyers' points of view. As a follow on to this book, Nicole published 'The Law of Telecommuting', focused on commercial enterprises, not so much purely the legal profession. Please see elseware on my recommended reading list for that book & its 2004 Supplement - laws do keep changing!
Guidance, from one of the earliest ambassadors for Telecommuting, on how to deal with a myriad of the issues that Telecommuters have to face: from disarming telecommuting skeptics, to technology for non-geeks, to knowing when to visit the office, to how to thrive as a Telecommuter. Great read.
Title:Teleworking & Telecommuting (Made E-Z) Publisher: Made E-Z Products Manufacturer: Author(s): Jeffery D. Zbar ISBN: 1563825198 Price: List $14.95, Lowest: $9.39
One of this book's reviews couldn't describe it better, "...a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle .... This will be huge."
To paraphrase another review: The book shows you how to work to live while preventing your life from being all about work and being a wage slave.
Title:The law of telecommuting Publisher: American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education Manufacturer: Author(s): Nicole Belson Goluboff ISBN: 0831808209 Price:
'The Law of Telecommuting' is focused on commercial enterprises, not so much on purely the legal profession, as Nicole's 1st book (Telecommuting for Lawyers) did. Nicole published a Supplement to this book in 2004 - laws do have an unhelpful habit of changing, especially privacy, data protection, taxation, safety and Intellectual Property issues. This book is a most useful tool to help you shape your policies & procedures. However, as they say, always consult a lawyer for complete guidance!
Friendly guide to getting the job done from virtually anywhere by using technology; whether as a telecommuter, as a mobile worker or at a satellite office.
A serious book that tackles the tough issues head-on but still manages to keep a sense of humour -- no bull, no pulled punches. Written by a 'been there, done that' Author, with maybe a laugh or two along the way.
Gil is the #2 (after Jack Nilles) Telecommuting Guru and this book helps those, who seldom go to the office, to have a life. About the only big problem with the modern work style of "Flexible" work (Anytime from Anywhere) is NOT that it's difficult to get started in the morning, but far more that it's really, really more difficult to STOP working. Today's technologies are so invasive and unrelenting that there is no hiding place. Recognizing this, Gil's book helps you get a life -- get one too!
Find out how to make working from home work for you, without letting it rule your life. A bunch of check lists and self-organizer planning sheets to help you control your working @ home experience - from where to put your office, to controlling clutter, to managing interruptions, to avoiding unproductive habits. An easy read.
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