Setting Up A Home Office 101
Ah, the joys of working from home. No battling the rush hour traffic. No rushed lunch breaks. No crammed workspaces surrounded by sterile, gray cubicle walls. Sounds like a worker’s paradise, doesn’t it? Be advised, it may not be as easy as you think.
The following advice, provided by Linda Novey-White, a member of the SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) board of directors, will help you avoid many of the common pitfalls.
• Emphasize the office. A home office has to be just that, an office. If your workspace feels too much like home, you’ll be doomed before you begin.
• Take a seat. You may be tempted to cut costs, but your office furniture is not the place to do it.
• Always stay connected. The advantages of working from an office — numerous phone lines and separate modem and fax lines — are a necessity for producing quality work at home.
• Be your own boss. To succeed as a do-it-from-homer, you’ll need to block out all the at-home distractions.
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Jaclyn on July 5th, 2009 12:46 pm
These are some good tips, however i don’t think they are all necessary when setting up your home office. The one about the office furniture i would disagree with. My office chair is a kitchen bar stool set in front of the kitchen island right in the center of the kitchen, my desk is obviously the kitchen island itself, and i do just fine there. My office then obviously is the kitchen itself which has all the aspects you would expect a kitchen to have and is also openly connected to the living room which contains the fish tank, the television, the dog and his bed and all day long my little 1 year old crawling all over the place, and once again…i do great during work hour’s.
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