∞ Is It Time for You to Telecommute?

Karen Leland: One new national poll shows that telecom­mut­ing is becom­ing more com­mon­place. For exam­ple, nearly half (44 per­cent) of chief infor­ma­tion offi­cers (CIOs) sur­veyed said their com­pa­nies’ IT work­force is telecom­mut­ing at a rate that is the same or higher than five years ago. via Is It Time For You to Telecom­mute?.  Read More

∞ Coworking: Stop Sharing Your Office With Your Worst Critic

Nancy Nally: Work­ing from home often means not hav­ing some­one right there with us to val­i­date deci­sions or keep us and our busi­ness pointed in the right direc­tion. We have to keep going, doing things while being con­fi­dent from within our­selves that we are on the right path. That con­fi­dence, I’m find­ing, can be dif­fi­cult to main­tain when you work in a home office sur­rounded by reminders of your per­sonal insecurities. Some very real con­cerns... Read More

∞ Workers Say They’re More Productive Away From Office

From Techflash.com: “Sixty per­cent of respon­dents to the Microsoft Tele­work sur­vey — con­ducted among 3,600 employ­ees in 36 cities nation­wide — say they are actu­ally more pro­duc­tive and effi­cient when work­ing remotely,” Microsoft says today said in a sum­mary of the find­ings. “With less time spent com­mut­ing and fewer cubi­cle ‘drive bys’ caus­ing dis­trac­tions, respon­dents say, more time can be spent on the task in front of them.” Also... Read More

Working Productively From Home

Elle Phillips: First off, you have to get rid of what most of us “cre­ative” types feel most com­fort­able with: unor­ga­nized clut­ter. Er… at least, that was one of my biggest hurdles! via Free­lanc­ing 101.  Read More