Tips for Your Home Office (Enhancing Your Life at Home) - Softcover

Gould, Meredith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158017003X ISBN 13: 9781580170031

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998

Synopsis

Lively firsthand advice for creating the most comfortable, professional, and productive home-office environment possible. In a friendly tips format, Gould offers ideas for managing time and work flow, choosing and using office equipment, easing the transition from office to home work, and more.

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Review

Being your own boss isn't all beer and skittles. As Meredith Gould says, "Go ahead and skip through your home shouting, 'Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last,' but don't get too carried away." Gould knows--from experience--that home workers often put in as many, if not more, hours than typical office workers, and that the environment they create for themselves must allow them to function as professionals, no matter what kind of business they're conducting. To that end, she's put together a creative, detailed guide to creating that environment, from the carpet, lighting, and setup of the office furniture to setting up a calendar system for billing clients. It covers a gazillion things you might not have thought of: how to improve the office air quality, how and when to send press releases, when to hire a consultant, making contacts through professional organizations, and when not to work in your bunny slippers. Even with a few minor peculiarities of organization (there's a useful chapter on planning ahead for giving up your office job, but it's oddly located in the middle of the book), this is one book no home office should be without. --Barrie Trinkle

From the Back Cover

Join the trendsetters who are making contacts, closing deals, and getting results without ever leaving home.

In Tips for Your Home Office, you'll find practical ideas and advice for eliminating commuting craziness, wardrobe worries, and corporate culture clashes by creating the most comfortable, productive, and professional environment you ever had -- in your own home. You'll learn how to:

* Evaluate and purchase home office equipment

* Juggle family responsibilities

* Keep up with industry trends and developments

* Make the case for home work to your employer

About this edition

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 158017003X
• ISBN 13: 9781580170031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160