Category: The Big Picture

A question I get sometimes from those who just can’t see themselves working from home is “Who Works from Home?” The answer: More and more people in more and more professions. Let’s look at some of the examples.

Self-employed

Self-employed professionals are great candidates for working in a home office. Writers and editors, developers and designers, translators, computer programmers, teachers, tech support specialists, franchise owners, transcriptionists, virtual assistants, and any number of types of business owners and crafts people. The internet is full of many kinds of jobs for the self-employed. The overhead associated with an office can be prohibitive for those just starting a business. Working out of a home office helps tremendously with the expenses.

Telecommuters and Virtual Employees

Telecommuters are defined as those who work for a company, but do the commuting electronically through teleconferencing, file sharing, and remote access to their company’s resources. Virtual Employees are workers such as contractors and long-term freelancers. Forbes, in a 2014 article suggested that the percentage of telecommuters is from 30 to 45 percent. The trend has been established and it doesn’t look like it is going away soon. The reasons? Business’s needs for working around the clock, for hiring hard-to-find skill sets, for wanting to offer employees a work-life balance and flexibility, for participating in a global workforce, and for expanding their workforce pool.

Professionals Taking the Work-at-Home Dive

Many people are just fed up with work and are considering taking the dive to finding a home-based business. Warning: There are lots of get-rich-quick scams out there! Maybe 1 out of every 50-60 publicized work-at-home opportunities really pan out to true paying work. With that said, there are many ways to make money out of your home office. If you are jumping ship from your day job, be careful. If it is too good to be true, but probably is a scam – and work takes just that – work, at least to get started.

Retired, But Not Really

Retirement sounds great when you are in the middle of the 8-6 job with a bad boss, a long commute, a glass ceiling, and high stress; however, many people get their gold watch, retire, go on a vacation in the RV, and then find themselves wondering what to do with themselves. I think there is a coffee cup purchased by a lot of spouses of retired professionals that says: “How can I miss you if you never go away?” Many retired professionals go back to work and are desperately needed by the still struggling workforce. Retired professionals not only often become successful at their next career, but serve the rest of us as consultants, teachers, mentors, board members, etc. And the cool thing, they can often easily work out of their home office.

Part-termers and Moonlighters

Even working professionals often find themselves in other endeavors – part-time teachers, writers, developers-on-the-side, and hobbyists. Even part-time workers need effective offices and excellent work-at-home practices and habits.

Movers and Travelers

There is also a unique subset of workers who move around a lot. Those awesome spouses of active military, spouses of transient professionals, such as those who work as long-term consultants around the globe, all can benefit from working at home. There is also a great group of folks who travel for a living – journalists, writers, consultants, salespeople, RVers, travel bloggers, or people who work on vacation. There are special skill sets that can apply to the highly mobile professional.

The work-at-home trend is expanding each year. Think about the terms we use to describe them: eworkers, webworkers, iworkers, teleworkers, telecommuters, remote workers, mobile professionals, digital nomads, location-independent professionals, technomads, virtual workers, etc.

What do you think?

So if you are a work-at-homer, how do you describe yourself? Do you use a term that connects with bosses, clients, potential customers? Let us know what you have found that works and doesn’t work.

What are the pros and cons of working at home? Well, there are several – on both sides – as there are to just about everything in life if you think hard enough. Working from home is no exception. There are numerous pros, if you set your home work environment up strategically. And, there are some downsides as well.

Pros to Working at Home

Work freedom and flexibility: Working from home often allows you much greater work freedom and flexibility. There is no one looking to see how busy you are, assessing how you do things, or judging whether you are day dreaming or critically thinking through a problem. You can often be flexible about when, where, and what you work on at any given part of a 24-hour day. Some people do their best work at 1:00 am while others tend to drift away and are gone for ever mid-afternoon. Working from home may be able to give you the freedom to work in a way that works best for you. Of course, you may still governed by needs of clients and bosses and other people’s work schedule. It really depends on what you do.

But think about it:

• 14% of Americans have actually changed jobs to shorten the commute
• 46% of companies that allow telecommuting say it has reduced attrition.
• 72% of employers say telework has a high impact on employee retention

Potential for higher productivity: People who work at home are often much more productive because the distractions of the typical office environment are – well, still at the traditional office. There is no water cooler conversation, no latest bad date story on Monday morning, no replaying of the Monday Night Football on Tuesday morning, no birthday parties, or whining, or countless other distractions. Now of course there’s Facebook, chat, the Internet, the laundry, the TV and Netflix, and the unwalked dog; however, these are within YOUR control. Fewer distractions means greater productivity. Also, a less-stressed and more satisfied worker also tends to perk up productivity.

Think about it:

• Some big companies like Best Buy, British Telecom, Dow Chemical, and many others show that teleworkers are 35-40% more productive.
• Businesses lose and estimated $600 billion a year in workplace distractions.
• Sun Microsystems’ experience suggests that employees spend 60% of the commuting time they save performing more work for the company. (Pretty good deal for the company, no?)
• American Express home-based workers produced 43% more than their office-based counterpoints.

No dress code: Few home offices have dress codes – I hope! You can throw away hose and heels and ties and jackets. Though some people say the can stay in their PJ’s and sweats for days and still do great work, showering is always a plus. We will talk more about dressing for success in the home office later; however, hose, heels, and ties are optional.

Convenience: Life is full for most of us. There are kids and errands and events and volunteering and house cleaning and aging parents and on and on and on. Working from home can be very convenient when the needs of others are a priority – if handled well.

No commute: We’ve already talked about the commute – and benefits of not commuting. You save a lot of wear and tear on your bank account, your health, your car, and your soul.

Tax write-offs: This isn’t a course on how to finance a home office. However, there are some pretty great home office tax breaks if you understand and follow all the rules. I’d see an expert on this topic before signing the bottom of your tax form.

Less stress: If done well, working from home can significantly reduce the amount of stress in your life. From the stress of commuting, wasting time at work, hard-to-deal-with co-workers, the frequent negativity and poor behaviors in the typical office, to the feeling of having things under your control, home office workers can really improve their life in the stress category.

More money: In addition to the money you actually make for doing your job, working from can add more money to your bottom line through the money you save by not commuting, through the money you save with unnecessary overhead, and through the money you make by being more productive.

Better work-life balance: This may be obvious, but if you have a great life with a spouse, kids, pets, friends, etc. and those things are at home, then working from home keeps you closer to the action. This is a top reason for many when deciding to make the move.

Cons of Working at Home

Working from the home office isn’t all fun and games, though, and it isn’t the end-all of professional success. Working from home is hard!

Requires discipline: It requires some serious discipline to get out of bed, get dressed, and get to work without first doing laundry, watching a movie, running errands, playing, etc. People who have little discipline and self-control either better stay in the office or develop some discipline quickly.

Requires technology know-how: Telecommuters must be comfortable with technology, remote access tools, teleconferencing software, and online tech support.

Requires self-motivation: Working from home also requires self-motivation: Like discipline and self-control, successful home office workers must be self-motivators. They can’t be the type who needs to be told what to do when. And they need to know when it’s time to learn new skills. Staying on time and on budget for your boss or client is essential and it requires some self-starting and lots of self-motivation.

Requires self-direction: Working away from a supervisor or team requires one to be self-directed. This means knowing what to do when and how to best do it. Often it means staying ahead of deadlines and maintaining a cushion for when things don’t go as planned.

Reduces the outside pressure to be busy: One thing that a lot of home office workers talk about is their ability to work when and how much they need without the feeling they need to look busy just because they are at work. Successful home office workers, especially those who are project-based, learn when they need to work hard and long hours on a project and when they can take a sunny afternoon dog walk to the park for a break or a long weekend with the family.

Requires office overhead and security: There are costs associated with working from a home office. The office setup, furniture, equipment, supplies, and security can add up. Some states have strict tax laws. Some communities and HOAs have rules against working from home.
May lead to isolation and loneliness: Working at home can be very lonely. The isolation is often a number one complaint of those who work full-time at home. People who thrive on the hustle and bustle of the busy and energetic office environment may find it a significant challenge to adapt to being by themselves. We will talk about some tips to overcome isolation, but it may mean that social life choices have to be changed so that non-working hours meet the social needs. Similarly, a lot of social interaction including lunch, happy hour, and after-hour gatherings are with co-workers. Home office workers often have to find their social network in other places.

May impact career advancement: Similarly, there may be some career fears from the out-of-sight-out-of-mind mentality. Successful telecommuting situations must have performance-based measurement systems and productivity instead of “presenteeism” attitudes. And, telecommuters must maintain regular communication with their traditional coworkers and managers.

Loss of living space: It might not seem like a big deal, but the first time an overnight guest comes for a visit and the only guest room is now your home office, that loss of living space may become a very big deal. It is even more of a big deal for those who live in small spaces. We will talk about some innovations that can minimize the space needs of a home office so that an overnight guest every now and then doesn’t stop production.

Communication limitations: Many people say that it is hard to communicate effectively with coworkers, bosses, and clients when they aren’t face-to-face. For some, it takes some serious adaption to communicating via email, chat, phone, web conferences, and online video. Body language and facial expressions do provide a lot of clues to what’s going on behind a person’s words. Home office workers need to work to optimize their communication including learning how to best use technology and making some extra efforts to get face-to-face when needed.

Boss’s paranoia: Some bosses are just paranoid and assume that if you aren’t in the office you are on the ski slopes or playing Frisbee at the beach instead of working and so aren’t supportive of working from home. This can be a real problem for some business environment when telecommuting all of a sudden becomes an option. It is also possible that telecommuters fall into the “out-of-sight-out-of-mind” hole when it comes to promotions, advancement, special awesome projects, awards, or other recognitions. Each person’s situation is different. And though telecommuters may be at a disadvantage, there may also be things to keep your name at the top of the list.

Danger of overworking: Many professionals who work from their home office say that a big challenge is less in finding the discipline and motivation to work and more in overworking. The office is well – right there down the hall, so, one more hour, one more milestone, one more sales call is pretty easy to do. Leaving it at the office is also a challenge. We all have bright ideas in the middle of the night, but when the office is in the next room, it is easy to lose sleep and turn on the computer.

Harder to learn from coworkers: In many office environment, a lot of learning goes on – we all learn from our bosses and informal mentors, from those who have been there and done that, and from our coworkers. Working from the home can really dampen our learning environment. We will talk about how to gain some of the learning opportunities back by using some great online tools and optimizing our business social networks.

The Bottom Line?

Yes. There are numerous pros and cons to working at home. It may take some thought and work to realize the pros and mitigate the cons.

What do you think? What are your best pros related to working from home? What are your biggest fears? How have you overcome some of your personal cons? Post some of your thoughts and tips and tricks. Everyone of us could use some help!

So why work from home? Why do some people decide to take the plunge (in some people’s mind) and decide to move their office either part-time or full-time to their extra bedroom, kitchen table, study, breakfast nook, or other reasonably suites space in their home? There are several common reasons people voice and no doubt unlimited individual personal and unique situation reasons. Let’s look at some top stated reasons first. Do any of these strike a chord with you?

Saving Money

A penny saved is a penny earned. Right? Well working from home saves a lot more than a few pennies. If you are a small business and don’t really need a store front to sell stuff, don’t have a lot of employees, and don’t need clients to come to your office much, a home office can make a lot of sense. With today’s cool technology tools, you can pretty much do anything at home as you can in a cubical/office/corner office/whatever. You can meet with bosses, clients, leads, project managers, assistants, and colleagues right from your desk using web conferencing or video chat tools, collaborate with clients and colleagues using Google docs and other online synchronous collaboration tools, and give and receive files using Google Drive or Dropbox type tools just like you were in an office and someone dropped a folder on your desk. The thing is, you don’t have to pay the extra overhead: rent, lights, computers and office equipment, furniture, Internet fees, phone fees, insurance for employees, tools, vehicles, equipment, business services, salaries, and on and on. Yes, of course you need these things in your home office and every office has its overhead, however, you don’t need to provide these things for a whole other office space. Some of it you probably already have at home – like lights, heat, and the Internet. All of this and more makes up your overhead – or the many indirect expenses necessary for and contributing to the continuing well-being of your business. How much extra are you adding to your home utility bills by officing there during the day? Some, but not that much. And, you can account for a big portion of the extra expense through your taxes.

In addition, think about the money you could save on commuting fees (gas and car maintenance, public transportation, parking, etc.) Some people find that they can save money in other areas, such as after school childcare, dog care, aging parent care, and so forth. Many find that they can get a full day’s work in by the time the kids get home eliminating the need for afterschool daycare! (The savings in commute time alone might make up these extra hours for some.)

According to GlobalWorkplace Analytics, if those with compatible jobs and a desire to work from home did so just half the time, the national savings would total over $700 Billion a year. (Yes, that is a B as in billion.)

Eliminating the Commute

If you live in a big city, the hours spent in traffic on the highway with road ragers may be a huge incentive for moving home. Even just eliminating this adventure a couple of days a week can improve your sanity! According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average commute time in the U.S. is 25.4 minutes. If you live in a big metro area such as LA or DC, it can be twice that or even more! First, translate your commute time to your billable hour rate. Really – Do the math! Let’s say your billable rate is $50 an hour and you spend 30 minutes in the car (or bus or train) each way. That is an hour a day – or $50. Counting major holidays, you have about 251 days a year to work. Let’s say you get an awesome 3 weeks for the beach, you now commute 236 days a year assuming you are in perfect health and take your vitamins so never get sick. If you do the math at $50 an hour and actually work (and get paid for) that extra hour each day instead of drive/bus/train, you will end up with over $11,000 more in your pocket. This doesn’t even include the cost of your gas, car maintenance, parking, train or bus fare, tolls, etc.

Gaining Time

With less commuting hours, not only will you earn the extra cash, you will save the wear and tear on your health. According to Princeton Professors Daniel Kahneman (Winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics) and Alan Krueger in their paper: “Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being”, the morning commute was at the top of the list of least enjoyable things in a person’s life – topping work, relationships, housework, and 15 more common daily activities. Additionally, if you are disciplined (yes, a very critical characteristic for successful work-at-homers), you may find that you are much more focused than at the office, especially if you have a job that requires focused, uninterrupted attention to the task at hand. Many professionals that work from home find that they have fewer interruptions (time wasters!), fewer drop ins (time wasters!), fewer meetings (time wasters!), fewer breaks (time wasters!), fewer non-work related chats with coworkers (time wasters!), and on and on. When they are at work, they are actually producing something. So, work gets done in fewer hours. Think about how long it takes to refocus on your task after you have been interrupted. Of course, the home office also has its own interruptors; however, at home, you are more in control.

Given the same amount of production, what would you do with an hour or two more a day? Play with the kids? Walk the dog? Exercise? Cook a healthy dinner? Watch old movies? Dive into a hobby? You really only hear from bored retired people that they have too much time on their hands.

Increasing Productivity

Another way a home office saves money and time is in productivity. Time is money – remember, time is worth your billable rate or how much you get done in a given hour of your salaried work. Think about how much time (billable hour) is wasted at the coffee pot, chatting about your coworkers latest cat disaster, attending unnecessary meetings that provide you with nothing you didn’t already know, and so on. Without these distractions and waste of your billable hour, you can end up adding to your bank account significantly, especially if you are paid by the hour. Even if you are paid by the project, more time means faster projects and faster projects means 1) happier clients, and 2) the ability to take on more projects – which means, of course, more money. Now often these distractions are a part of the social aspects that make work fun and satisfying, but work-at-homers can still get social without digging into their billable hour. Skilled professionals who have mastered working in their home office can trade these wasted hours in for money or time – either (or even both) is probably not a bad deal. Then they can plan their social time.

Self-Bossing

If you have the drive, initiative, and discipline to work from home, then you no doubt have what it takes to be your own boss. No more micro-managing, arrogant, non-communicating, lazy, favorite playing, under-appreciating, overworking, overbearing, incompetent, and “You-Fill-In-The-Blank” bosses. Of course, not every boss is bad. I have had some amazing bosses who are both friends and mentors. But this is no guarantee. Officevibe created a pretty telling infographic that suggests some most problematic characteristics of bad bosses include controlling, dedecisive, stubborn, resistant to change, leading by fear, micromanaging, favoritism, visionless, arrogant, angry, emotional, and blame throwing. Just about anyone in the workworld have experienced at least a few of these boss issues.

To a large extent, home-office-workers can pick their own schedule, their own projects, their own work habits, their own work styles, and their own daily work environment. They can boss themselves. For talented workers, this is a big plus. If you aren’t that talented yet, well personal development is in your control!

Why work from home? In short, there are as many different reasons as workers; however, many successful work-at-homers state that they are saving money and time, love not having to commute in traffic to the office, have become more productive, and boss themselves.

What Do You Think? What are other motivators for those of you who are thinking about or already working from home? Why work from home? We would love to hear your thoughts.

 

Most professionals who work in a larger metro area spend several minutes, if not an hour or more, in commute time to and from work. The more days you work at home, the fewer hours you spend commuting. Not only will you save the extra cash required for gas and car maintenance or public transportation and parking, you will save the wear and tear on your health and pocketbook. The country and business world saves collectively as well.

Health Savings by NOT Commuting to Work

According to Princeton Professors Daniel Kahneman (Winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics) and Alan Krueger in their paper: “Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being”, the commute, particularly the morning commute was an activity that elicited bad mood emotions such as anger, frustration, annoyance, depression, hassle, worry, and criticism. Thomas Christian of Georgia State University found that the more time we spend commuting, the less time we spend exercising, fixing our own meals, having people over, grocery shopping – basically doing things that lead to pretty significant health problems. Other studies have suggested that commuters are more likely to experience many physical health problems:

• Neck and back problems
• Obesity
• Body aches
• Sleep problems
• A disappearing social life
• Less time with the family

Basically, work-at-homers tend to trade drive for personal time – or family time or exercise time or kid time or social time – whatever gets moved to the top of your priority list. Even time for an extra hour or so for work is better than sitting in a car, bus, train…

Gas Savings by NOT Commuting to Work

Also, data from GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com (2013) suggests that in addition to the health benefits of NOT commuting, if the estimated 64 million workers of the 120-million person workforce who are not self-employed and who had compatible jobs for working at home plus the desire to do so would actually work from their home office, consumers as a whole would save $20 billion a year in gas alone.

National Savings by Commuting to Work

If that same population of the estimated 64 million workers who could work from home did, as a nation, we would:

• Reduce greenhouse gases by 54 million tons a year
• Reduce wear on our highways by over 119 billion miles a year
• Save 90,000 people from traffic-related injury or death each year
• Save over 640 million barrels of oil each year

Business Savings by NOT Commuting to Work

For that same population, if the appropriate workers did NOT commute to work each day, businesses collectively would:

• Save over $500 billion a year in total costs
• Increase national productivity by 5 million man-years or $270 billion worth of work
• Save on numerous overhead expenses related to office space, utilities, parking, and wasted time at work

Personal Savings by NOT Commuting to Work

On an individual and personal basis, let’s say that you spend one hour in your car in your commute time to work five days each week (30 minutes to work and 30 minutes home.) That is five hours a week NOT doing something else. Multiply 5 times 49 weeks each year (assuming you get three weeks of vacation) and you get 245 hours in the car. Let’s assume you work a 50-hour work week. NOT commuting saves you almost five work-weeks each year. What could you do in five weeks a year of extra leisure, family, exercise, thinking, or work time? Even working from home just one day each week could save you a week a year of work hours. In the big picture, this is a lot of time.

Bottom Line: Working from home, especially the no commute part, has a ton of benefits. The key? Make sure that 1) your business works for you at home, 2) you have developed the skills, discipline, and home office environment so that it works well, and 3) you have thought through the downside of working from home thoroughly (Yes, there are some downsides) and are either OK with them or have found a way over them.

What do you think? How much time do you spend commuting? If you could work a day a week at home, would it be worth it? What are the obstacles? What might be the advantages? We would love to hear your story.

Welcome to Home Office Insights! I am glad you clicked in for a visit. This site is dedicated to all the professionals who are working out of their home office – those just beginning and those seasoned professionals who have figured out how to be productive, efficient, and highly satisfied. It isn’t easy. Each of us has our own particular challenges. Some of us need to focus on work habits. Others may need to focus on setting up a productive and efficient office space that we LOVE to be in for hours at a time. Still others may need to learn about technology that can make our lives easier. Some may just need some encouragement and inspiration. If you fit one or more of these groups, then you are in the right place.

A Little Back Story

Many years ago, I read one chapter of a very old book, called Wishcraft by Barbara Sher. I think it was published in the late 1970’s and I think I read part of it when I was in college. It offered a step-by-step strategy for making your dreams come true. I don’t remember much about the steps except for this: Write down your ideal day in detail. Describe how you see yourself in your perfect, ideal day. The point was that you can’t really get to a dream unless you know in detail what that dream looks like. I remember doing this exercise. It went something like this:

“I wake up in my cabin in the woods, fix a great cup of coffee, greet my greyhound rescue dog, and move to the deck where I greet the brisk Colorado morning and again stand in awe of my breathtaking mountain view. I finish the first cup, put on my running shoes, grab the leash, and head out for my five mile run. When I return, I sit down at my computer (with a mountain view) and begin my day’s writing. My “job” is working for myself, writing books and newsletters, teaching in a small college a couple of days a week, and traveling around the country speaking on something interesting. I don’t go into an office. I only go into town twice a week. I only travel when I want to and it is worth the speaking fee…..”

The detailed description of my ideal day went on for many paragraphs. The point is that I knew from college that eventually, I wanted to work from home with a Colorado mountain view and have the freedom to do what I wanted. I wanted to write and teach and travel – but on my terms – not someone else’s.

After four years of undergrad, graduate school, a PhD, a career as a college professor and Dean of Students, a career as a curriculum manager, starting a few businesses, and finally an educational consultant and freelance writer, I am sitting here in Colorado with a mountain view. I have a cabin in the mountains AND a home in Denver. My greyhound eventually went to doggy heaven, but I now have an Italian greyhound at my feet. I have aged some (well, a lot) and my four-mile run has been reduced to daily one mile or so run or a long dog walk. I did the travel thing for a while until it lost its luster. For the last 12 years, I have worked in my home office on projects that connect with my passions. The point? I don’t think I would have gotten here if I hadn’t actually described my ideal day in the beginning. It was a long and windy path, but here I am – mostly living that ideal day. I definitely revised it every few years, but the basic day has stuck in my head. I just change some of the details. Technology came along and has made it much easier. Working from home is as productive for me (if not way more productive) than in any office.

I highly recommend that you take a few minutes and write down your own ideal day (not what you think might happen or could happen based on where you are now, but a “no rules – no box” ideal day. As the Wishcraft book said – You can’t achieve something if you don’t know what that something is in detail.

I’ve Learned a Lot!

In my journey to this version of my ideal day, I have learned a lot! I have learned that to be productive at home, I needed to change some of my attitudes, develop some discipline, and change some aspects of my non-working life. I needed to learn more about how to be organized, how to stay up on things, and how to stay connected. I needed to learn some technology skills and how to make technology work for me. Working from home full time certainly hasn’t been easy or intuitive; however, it has been well worth the effort, extra learning and skill development, and initiatal pain. As of now, I don’t see how I could ever go back to the traditional office environment. I am constantly improving my work-at-home knowledge and skills, but what I am doing now works pretty well. I make the same money as I did in the office, have the same connections, and see the same bright professional future.

I talk to people all the time who are thinking about working from home either a day or two a week or even full time. I hear their fears of things like losing face-time and connections with colleagues, not having the discipline, being distracted by home stuff and kids, missing out on promotions, not being able to manage the technology, and so many more.  I also hear a lot of complaints about the commute time to the office, bad bosses, crazy co-workers, stuffy cubicals, pointless meetings, bad lighting, uncomfortable chairs, and on and on. So, maybe something you learn here at HomeOfficeInsights.com will help clear up some fears and myths and encourage you in making the move to your home office. Or, maybe some of the insights can help make your office job better and more productive. Keep reading!

My Mission with HomeOfficeInsights.com

The mission of HomeOfficeInsights.com is to share what I have learned about how to productively and efficiently work from home and to provide a vehicle for others to share their ideas as well. As I tell my college students, not every person learns (works) in the same way and what is meaningless for one person may be just the right tip for someone else. You just never know.

We’ll be discussing several areas that, when done well, lead to a highly successful work at home environment.

• Habits: What are the habits needed to be productive and efficient? A lot of us are on our own billable time (and the rest are on someone else’s billable time), so getting the biggest bang for each hour worked is an important step. This section suggests lots of habits, techniques, strategies, thought processes, and so forth to help in the day-to-day working.
• Design: What home office designs work – and what doesn’t work? Design is a personal thing, but perhaps you can gain some ideas to create that home office sanctuary we all dream about. This section talks about home office design and cool things that will make getting up and going to work delightful!
• Technology: What technology is available for a highly productive home office? I’m a bit lazy, so love the technology that makes my life easier and more efficient. The technology that helps me make money is nice too.
• Inspiration: Well we all need a bit of inspiration every now and then. This section provides just that. Visit here often to get a bit of a pep talk or food for thought.
• Reviews: With the help of our readers, we will take a look at what works, what doesn’t work, and what is the best of breed in many different home office-related areas.

Thanks again for visiting. There is a little something for everyone, so come back often and share your own home office insights.

If you ever need a hand or have ay questions, feel free to leave them below and I will be more than happy to help you out.

All the best,

Terry Taylor
terry@HomeOfficeInsights.com