Effective Telecommuting E-Book

50MINUTES

• Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Coaching
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 32

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about telecommuting with this practical guide.

An increasing number of employees are choosing to ask to work from home whenever possible, due to longer commuting times or family demands. From analysing your personality to developing a suitable time management system, this guide will explain each step to ensure that you are ready to begin telecommuting and that you will achieve the best results possible. 

In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand exactly what telecommuting consists of and how it can benefit both an employee and an employer
• Decide whether telecommuting would you and your job by looking at your personality and the tasks required of you
• Identify potential pitfalls, such as stress and burn out, and how to avoid them 

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Leseprobe

Effective telecommuting

Issue: how can I work effectively from home? What are the keys to time management when working from home? Uses: telecommuting presents a real challenge in terms of time management. Being self-disciplined at home will enable you to be as efficient there as at the office. Professional context: working from home, telecommuting, time management, personal organisation. FAQs:What are the jobs which may require telecommuting? Do I have to establish a specific contract? Is telecommuting more relaxing than working at the office? What should I do in the case of a computer or hardware malfunction?What happens if there is a work accident? What do I do when I am ill? What are the aspects to consider before starting to telecommute (legal, practical, logistical and personal aspects, etc.)?

A relatively recent idea, telecommuting (working from home) is increasingly common. Thanks to the age of Web 2.0, smartphones and the many communication apps, it has become easy – for some jobs anyway – to work from home. Working from home is often considered an advantage: we gain time as we are spared the commute to work; we also avoid the fatigue of public transport or car journeys and their share of daily traffic jams; we save money by not buying fuel or transport tickets; we can organise our day as we wish; we are free to do what we want during our lunch break; we avoid the frequent interruptions and distractions of the office.

But telecommuting is not a synonym for lazing around. You must learn to manage your time and improve your organisation, as well as to reserve a space specifically dedicated to your career. Your employer will often be even more demanding when you work at home. By allowing you to work from home, they are trusting you and thus reasonably expect productive work in return. It is therefore a good idea to seriously consider all the ins and outs of such a decision.

“I have always had difficulty concentrating. When my employer allows it, I prefer working from home so as to avoid as many distractions as possible. But telecommuting requires great self-discipline! It is really not easy to be productive and to provide the expected work while alone in the house.” (Emily, publisher)

Effective telecommuting: the basics

The vague term of telecommuting

According to UK law, telecommuting refers to any type of work that is done by an employee outside the organisation’s premises on a recurring basis, with the help of computer technologies. Working outside the company’s premises does not necessarily mean working from your home: there are types of telecommuting that take place in either a co-working space, or on trips for some jobs.

There are different types of telecommuting: nomadic work, which involves being constantly on the go and carrying out your work outside the organisation’s premises (such as a salesperson or consultant); telecommuting at home, which involves working all week from home; part-time telecommuting, which is an alternative form of work meaning that the employee spends part of their time working from home and comes to work for some days within the organisation; and finally, collaborative work, which involves working on shared files with people that are geographically far away and they do this with groupware (software programmes that enable many people to share documents from a distance, such as Dropbox, Gmail, Skype, etc.).

This book looks at working from home and part-time telecommuting.

Why work from home?

The good reasons

For the worker, this method of organising work, which may be practiced on a full-time basis or one or two days per week – the rest of the time being spent at the organisation – presents numerous advantages.