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Working from Home: Your Home Office Setup

Mar 07 2008

Posted by J. Angelo as Business Features, Business and Money, Virtual Office

If you're like me, you would be quite averse to the usual corporate setup. I used to work the corporate grind, getting up early in the morning to drive or take a cab, bus or train to the office miles away, work for eight or more hours, and then go home at night feeling tired and weary. Work is great and the people are okay, too, except for my disdain with office politics. But it's the travel time that usually leaves me exhausted each day. Imaging wasting your time in hours of travel just to get from point A to point ...

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Why You Need To Rest Part 2: Tips for staying in tip-top performance

Dec 19 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Strategies, Tricks of the Trade, Virtual Office

Just this Monday, I posted on why we all need to rest. Now my tips for staying at peak performance include: Have a rest day. Whether you’re Jewish, Christian, Moslem, Buddhist, Baha’i, Agnostic, or an Atheist, set a rest day where you can recharge and renew your energies. On that day, turn off your computer. Set aside everything that resembles your paperwork, even post-its. Grab a non-business or work-related book, a feel-good book, a feel-good DVD that doesn’t require you to think, and just relax.

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Why You Need To Rest Part 1: Intro

Dec 17 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Strategies, Tricks of the Trade, Virtual Office

Finally, I’m starting my workweek! After an entire week of downtime, virtually doing NOTHING and feeling worthless, I’m only too glad to be making money err, working again. Speaking of feeling worthless and for what it’s worth for women who love to multi-task, I’m listing here what I think I should do, and what I believe are essential for staying in tip-top shape, productivity-wise. I believe that productivity is not a matter of pushing yourself to the limit. Rather, it’s a matter of getting that work-life balance thing down pat.

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Writer’s Survival Kit 2: Tools for the Tech-Savvy Scribe-slash-Visionary

Nov 27 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Concepts, Lifestyle and Leisure, Tricks of the Trade, Virtual Office

Last week, I discussed my primitivo royale writer’s tools to maximize time. Now here is my concept survival kit, because I have yet to purchase any of these, because I had to fill my room with essentials first. I believe that the tech-savvy writer has to have the best tools of the trade in order to do his or her job excellently. These tools, these gadgets do not have to be the top-of-the-line branded stuff, but as long as they: are sturdy, durable, and will last you at least two years deliver decent to great output serve their purpose and more.. ..then they are top-notch in my book. More so if they are as hot as this baby that I deem essential to my career, and am actually aiming to get. I believe that a writer/blogger, when offline, has to have these essentials

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Quirky Work Habits: Do you have them too?

Nov 08 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Enhancements, Lifestyle and Leisure, Virtual Office

What quirks do you have when you work? Writers, they say, are the quirkiest people when they are on “work mode”.

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Virtual Office – Holding Regular Meetings

May 07 2006

Posted by Gordon as Virtual Office

Human interaction is important in any working environment. And even in a virtual office setting, communication is essential to keep a team moving towards achieving its goals. This is why companies that set up virtual office arrangements heavily utilise email, instant messaging, and even video-conferencing in communicating with each other. However, this may not be enough, as sometimes, there’s no replacing actual interaction. This is where regular meetings are important. Companies that have employees scattered across cities, states, countries, and even continents should find a way to have regular meet-ups, at least once a year. In most cases, it would benefit ...

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Virtual Office Drawbacks and Solutions

May 06 2006

Posted by Gordon as Virtual Office

The main point with setting up a company with virtual offices is to save on costs and add to efficiency. This stems from the principle that a company can save on rent, utility, and staffing costs if it foregoes the need for a central office and then distribute the costs among smaller home or mobile offices, instead. Also, employees are likely to be more productive if they are left to work at the comfort of their own environs. However, considering that costs of logistics and technical support services become too high, a business might be led to think twice ...

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Virtual Office Drawbacks (part 2)

May 05 2006

Posted by Gordon as Virtual Office

Among the problems associated with virtual office arrangements is the issue of logistics. Some companies prefer to provide their mobile employees with all the equipment and other tools they need for work. Others just let their employees purchase things they need and then reimburse these at cost. Still other companies would let their employees purchase needed items at their own cost, with these imputed into their respective compensation schemes. And as with other work settings that rely heavily on technology, work-at-home or mobile office set-ups are not without glitches. Often would one or two remote employees experience technical problems of ...

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Virtual Office Drawbacks

May 04 2006

Posted by Gordon as Virtual Office

These days of broadband, wireless Internet, and videoconferencing, companies are moving towards virtual office setups, where workers can be mobile, and work wherever the infrastructure supports their needs. The laptop, mobile phone, and even BlackBerry are the “weapons” of choice for today’s mobile warriors. The virtual office has its advantages, in terms of lowering costs of maintaining central offices, and keeping employee costs—travel, meals, etc.—to a minimum. However, working with virtual offices has its disadvantages, too. Foremost among these are the difficulties associated with not having face-to-face encounters with managers and staffers. For one, human interaction does have an ...

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Varying Virtual Office Practices

May 03 2006

Posted by Gordon as Virtual Office

An article on eWeek tells on the varying practices and approaches several companes take when it comes to virtual office settings. Given that a growing number of firms have employees working at their own home or mobile offices, different rules also apply. Since employees may be located in different parts of the country, or even across the globe, you can just imagine the difficulties in terms of logistics. Some provide all the equipment and hardware needs of employees, including the occasional tech support requirements (which are usually sourced out if the staff are not tech savvy enough). Some ask ...

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