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Top 10 Tips for Effective Telecommuting - Get an Extra 19 Hours of Work Done Each Week
Professor E Jeffrey Hill has led a study to be published in the June 2010 issue of Journal of Family Psychology under the name “Finding an Extra Day or Two.” In the study, the researchers conclude that telecommuters can work an average of 57 hours per week without feeling the conflict with family life as compared to 38 hours for office bound employees. The study also concludes that the happiest and hardest working telecommuters also had flexible work hours and did spend time in the office. Besides saving money for the company, telecommuting has been associated with increased job satisfaction and boosting morale, when it may be suffering. However, telecommuting alone does not create a happy, effective and hard working employee. Here are 10 tips for being a responsible, efficient, productive and successful telecommuter.
Pros and Cons of Starting your own Business
An increasing number of professionals from graduate to senior management level consider setting up an own business. There is a large variety of factors underlying these thoughts and tendencies. What are the pros and cons when considering a change from a "secure" employment to running your own business?
5 Tips For Getting Things Done For Work At Home Moms
Many more people these days are taking advantage of the Internet to work from home. It might be that they run an online business, or it might be that they have a job that allows them to "telecommute", so they can do all of their professional work online. A great many telecommuting based jobs allow for flexible hours and pay on a freelance basis.
Small Business Interview Series Employee Benefits
Employee benefits are an important topic for many small business owners and managers. In the first installment of an ongoing series, I speak with benefits specialist Rachel von Sturmer, Principal at True Benefits Financial, about employee benefits best practices, trends and challenges.
Work Life Balance
Finding balance between work and your personal life.
Work-Life Quality and Balance
Work-Life Quality and Balance is probably the greatest challenge most of us face today. We refer to "work-life" as the holistic view that work and personal responsibilities, in practice, cannot be conveniently separated. Therefore, a new paradigm of self-management becomes necessary. The basic premise of this paradigm is "don't attempt to manage time, learn to manage your most important activities." Read on to learn more!

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Trapped On The Treadmill - Work-Life Balance
Smart companies are recognizing employee needs for work-life balance and are providing an environment that encourages that balance. Yet, limiting this to quick fixes like flexible working hours, or part time hours for working mothers is not dealing with the real reasons why people are feeling disillusioned with their working life. It has more to do with long hours, constant overtime, bullying bosses, and the continual cutbacks that keep many on a frayed tightrope.

Working from Home – A Blessing or a Curse?
If you are among the increasing number of individuals who work from home, you know that it has some wonderful benefits – no traffic and parking hassles, no office politics to drag you down, nobody looking over your shoulder, you can wear your house slippers to work, and you can set flexible work hours. But these same great benefits come with drawbacks – a sense of isolation, no external pressure to keep you motivated and on task, and no limit to your work hours. In essence, if you are not careful you can easily find yourself “at work” all the time.
How to Ask for a Flexible Work Arrangement
Are you a parent trying to better balance work and family or an entrepreneur just getting started while working for someone else? Either way a flexible work arrangement can be the answer to your prayers. It is a great way to carve out some extra hours for your other endeavors. Asking for even small things can be hard at times. Here are some helpful tips to make asking for this big thing a bit easier.
Negotiate a Flexible Work Schedule
Are you feeling conflicted about the demands of work and family? More companies are beginning to see the benefits of offering their employees flexible work arrangements, such as part-time work, job sharing, compressed work weeks, telecommuting, and flexible schedules.
5 Tips For Getting Things Done For Work At Home Moms
Many more people these days are taking advantage of the Internet to work from home. It might be that they run an online business, or it might be that they have a job that allows them to "telecommute", so they can do all of their professional work online. A great many telecommuting based jobs allow for flexible hours and pay on a freelance basis.
Top tips on how to manage flexible workers
Flexible working is all the rage and many companies are using it to get round the recession. It saves on overheads, helps recruitment and retention of experienced staff and reduces absence. But what are the barriers and how do you manage flexible workers? Here are some tips on how to make flexible working work for you.
Real Work At Home Jobs You Can Do To Make Money From Home
Today if you want to work at home, there are all kinds of opportunities out there. Working at home comes along with many benefits, including flexible hours, more time with the family, and the ability to be your own boss.
Any time, any place, anywhere
Flexible working is normally conceived as working part time, compressed hours or starting earlier/finishing later. But what if your work was so flexible that it meant you could move to the other side of the world with virtually no impact? That is what Lysette Parbhu has done. She set up her ethical children's clothes company, Babies in Sheep's Clothing, in the UK and has just moved to South Africa for her husband's business and is still able to work more or less as normal around her two children.

Simple Tips to Higher Productivity while Working from Home
Everyone has heard of all the glamorous reasons on why you should work from home. A few of the reasons are flexible hours, no long commutes, no office politics or a boss peeking over your shoulder. One thing that I would like to cover in this article is something you don’t hear much about; productivity or the lack there of.
Top 10 Tips for Effective Telecommuting - Get an Extra 19 Hours of Work Done Each Week
Professor E Jeffrey Hill has led a study to be published in the June 2010 issue of Journal of Family Psychology under the name “Finding an Extra Day or Two.” In the study, the researchers conclude that telecommuters can work an average of 57 hours per week without feeling the conflict with family life as compared to 38 hours for office bound employees. The study also concludes that the happiest and hardest working telecommuters also had flexible work hours and did spend time in the office. Besides saving money for the company, telecommuting has been associated with increased job satisfaction and boosting morale, when it may be suffering. However, telecommuting alone does not create a happy, effective and hard working employee. Here are 10 tips for being a responsible, efficient, productive and successful telecommuter.
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