home working

Guest Post: With Great Freedom Comes Great Responsibility

| Working From Home

It’s not hard to see why the freelancing bug has caught on for so many. Being able to work from home and work to your own schedule (with no boss telling you what to do) sounds like heaven to most of us. However, if you are going to succeed in the world of freelancing then you must be able to balance the freedom and flexibility with discipline and ground rules.

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The rise of home working

| Working From Home

Great to see the Guardian covering the Rise of Homeworking:

The rise of home working | Money | The Guardian

Of course, we’ve know about the steady rise of home-working and the joys of working from home for some time now. For more on home-working don’t forget our Working-From-Home section is where to find all the latest posts.

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“Home business of the year” award added to Startups Awards 2010

| Getting a Job,News

Despite cuts across the board, overall, UK business is seeing a positive change thanks to the new Government. Tax breaks, including extended relief on the increase in Capital Gains Tax and National Insurance have been introduced and support for SMEs has been very positive.

To mark the importance of SMEs, The Startups Awards 2010 have added a Home Business of the Year category to their annual awards.

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10 reasons why you should work from home

| Working From Home

Do you like bashing the snooze button as many times as you like? Do you hate those gossipy water cooler conversations? While there are lots of side-benefits from working from home there are some real benefits too. Joycellyn Akuffo editor of MothersWhoWork.co.uk lists her Top Ten reasons why working from home is so appealing to so many.

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Compare broadband options for working at home

| Technology,Working From Home

If you occasionally work from home then getting a decent broadband connection can really help you get your work done effectively.

Thanks to modern-day technology, working from home is no longer a second-rate way of staying in touch with clients and colleagues and broadband has become a vital lifeline for many home workers, allowing them to email or browse the web in comfort while also being able to send and receive large files with ease.

If you’re not up to speed with Broadband at home Chris Marling of Broadband Genie gives you a a few things to consider.

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Home Office: Keeping those wires under control

| Technology,Working From Home

If the underneath of your desk looks like a bird’s net of tangled cables, power bricks, and distribution sockets, now is the time to tame your wires and create a tidy environment in your home office.

Here are a few quick ways to tame those cables…

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The Death of the Office?

| Working From Home

Who needs an office? Well, the Prime Minister I guess. Your accountant, perhaps. The CEO of a corporation with multiple divisions for sure. But if you’re an agile company producing web-content, applications or software do you really need to have all your troops all lined up ready for battle at 9am every morning five days a week?

Freelance Advisor has always tried to promote home working as a flexible, sustainable and more productive option for 21st century working and this week Seth Godin, Hive Logic and Chris Ashworth all made excellent points about the failings of the traditional office.

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Podcast 21: The Challenges of Working from Home

| Podcast,Working From Home

Andy speaks to Judy Heminsley, author of Work from Home.

  • The challenges of working from home
  • Tackling procrastination and gaining momentum
  • Getting into the right frame of mind
  • Overcoming isolation – getting out of the house
  • Co-working spaces – renting a desk and getting help
  • Starting a Jelly – one day co-working events in Bath and Bristol
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