Comments on: Top 5 tips for working from home http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/ Blog of Will McGugan Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:44:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: work at home typing jobs no cost ever free start up http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-30142 work at home typing jobs no cost ever free start up Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:42:25 +0000 http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-30142 <strong>work at home typing jobs no cost ever free start up...</strong> work at home typing jobs no cost ever free start up... work at home typing jobs no cost ever free start up…

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]]> By: butters http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-605 butters Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:34:50 +0000 http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-605 another tip from another homeworker: use instant messanger most of the time to contact your "boss". so he cant here you watching tv, babble with the postgirl. phone is, in my case, for emergencies and friends :) another tip from another homeworker: use instant messanger most of the time to contact your “boss”. so he cant here you watching tv, babble with the postgirl. phone is, in my case, for emergencies and friends :)

]]> By: Will http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-604 Will Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:40:48 +0000 http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-604 Hurricane. Thanks, although he did have enough class to approve the comment! Babu. Thanks for the tips. No kid yet so 2 wont be a problem for me! Hurricane. Thanks, although he did have enough class to approve the comment!

Babu. Thanks for the tips. No kid yet so 2 wont be a problem for me!

]]> By: Babu http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-602 Babu Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:01:05 +0000 http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-602 Since I am employed by an employer and has to deal with about 18 people regularly and the culture of talking over phone is not really there yet in India, I found it difficult initially when I started working from home. Few more tips I can share: 1) Never start a work session with personal stuff (email, browsing, blogging etc...). If I start like that, I finish it and make it a point to take a 5 minutes break before coming back to work. 2) Keep the kid away (very hard!), but spend the break time with him/her. 3) Publish your routine to your colleagues. Most of them will figure out not to disturb during off time when there is no emergency. 4) Get the ergonomics of your workstation right. Very hard to do, since "stuff" keeps coming back to my computer table :-) It has worked out reasonably well. Though I still go to office at regular times to have face-to-face time with my colleagues. Since I am employed by an employer and has to deal with about 18 people regularly and the culture of talking over phone is not really there yet in India, I found it difficult initially when I started working from home. Few more tips I can share:
1) Never start a work session with personal stuff (email, browsing, blogging etc…). If I start like that, I finish it and make it a point to take a 5 minutes break before coming back to work.
2) Keep the kid away (very hard!), but spend the break time with him/her.
3) Publish your routine to your colleagues. Most of them will figure out not to disturb during off time when there is no emergency.
4) Get the ergonomics of your workstation right. Very hard to do, since “stuff” keeps coming back to my computer table :-)

It has worked out reasonably well. Though I still go to office at regular times to have face-to-face time with my colleagues.

]]> By: hurricanecandice http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-601 hurricanecandice Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:24:27 +0000 http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-601 Unrelated to this post, the comment you left on another page: "The chances of the average American being eaten by a lion is probably infinitesimally small, so I suggest to you that you go to the zoo, jump in the lion enclosure and do your best wildebeest impression" made me laugh out loud. Good for you for putting that imbecile in his place. Unrelated to this post, the comment you left on another page: “The chances of the average American being eaten by a lion is probably infinitesimally small, so I suggest to you that you go to the zoo, jump in the lion enclosure and do your best wildebeest impression” made me laugh out loud. Good for you for putting that imbecile in his place.

]]> By: Paul Boddie http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-599 Paul Boddie Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:03:07 +0000 http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-599 "Ever seen a fat postman?" Newman! “Ever seen a fat postman?”

Newman!

]]> By: Fabian http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-596 Fabian Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:19:05 +0000 http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/04/09/top-5-tips-for-working-from-home/#comment-596 Thanks for this. Nice to see you're limiting yourself to five (most important?) lessons. I'm still coping with the routine thing and my messy desk... Bookmarked :) Thanks for this. Nice to see you’re limiting yourself to five (most important?) lessons. I’m still coping with the routine thing and my messy desk… Bookmarked :)

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