Working From Home: Dealing With Noise and Distractions
For people who work at home, those pesky people who live in your house can be a major distraction. Here’s how to deal with the noise and still get work done.
Archive for January, 2009
Working From Home: Is Your Workplace Suitable?
The desire to escape the rat race is escalating. For many of us home working is not only a matter of personal fulfilment but also necessity. For working mothers, people with disabilities and self-employed persons unable to afford rented premises, it can be a compelling option. Cutting commuting not only reduces expenses but may become an ecological imperative for reducing carbon emissions. With broadband and online working increasingly viable, the temptation to set up at home is huge. There are, however, many factors to take into account before you make the transition and a suitably designed and equipped workspace is an important one.
Working From Home: Do You Have What It Takes?
For family reasons, personal satisfaction and economy, working from home is an attractive option. On various practical grounds, home working is not suitable for everyone. For example, a suitable workspace is important, but can often be created if existing arrangements prove lacking. However, if you lack the right temperament, motivation or attitude to working from home there may be little you can do about it.
Derailed by a Deadwood Boss
Slaving Under a Shaky Supervisor
Unless he owns the company, a bad boss is probably living on borrowed time.
Do you have a bad boss? Do you pour on your best effort every day for a weasel, a wannabee, or a wimpy manager? Does your supervisor steal your best ideas and attempt to assume credit for your achievements? How can you advance your own career without being derailed or detoured by your boss’ incompetence?
Stalking Employment for the Weary Job Hunter
Many who find themselves in the ranks of the newly unemployed devote a great deal of time to reading articles titled “How to Find a Job”, or something depressingly similar. With only a moderate investment of effort, one will come to find that the advice does not contain much variety either, for that matter. An excellent reason for this consistency is that it is good advice, and good advice is ordinarily quite sufficient on its own. In extraordinary circumstances – and one hopes our current national economic gloom qualifies as outside the norm – endlessly reading nearly identical articles devolves into a sort of desperate search for a magic employment button. There is no magic button, else we’d all be pushing it and we’d all have good jobs. What you’ll read here is also no magic button, but rather a more creative approach to unemployment known as “leaving no stone unturned”.
