If your firm allows staffers to telecommute, consider working from home a few days a week.
And working from home, at least some of the time, is essential for attracting smart employees.
Lastly, the line between work and personal life can easily blur when working from home.
Her biggest fear of working from home: being out of sight, out of mind.
Some employees of Hewlett-Packard switched to working from home, which is already a practice.
He was working from home using his calculator and his screen showing existing holdings details.
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Clearly, the peace and quiet of working from home feels like isolation for some.
When communication systems were slow and unreliable, working from home was never going to be an option.
Here are five reasons that working from home is appealing, especially for companies in the start-up phase.
Employees take turns working from home, while new hires train in classrooms at a nearby community college.
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Commuters were also praised for car sharing and working from home, which helped to reduce traffic volume.
Once employees could choose where to work, the performance impact of working from home more than doubled.
But the current debate on working from home, the hotel, or any other location sometimes misses the point.
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Working from home allows flexibility where everyone on staff can work the hours when they feel most productive.
They realize that people working from home may take breaks to run errands or handle other non-work tasks.
And working from home means using less paper, since the only practical way to share your work is digitally.
For those with small children, working from home can mean additional family time.
In the last year, since working from home, I still drove 10, 000 miles.
Moreover, working from home will not be so isolating if home is next door to where potential workmates live.
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Working from home should not imply that you are available at all hours and every day of the week.
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Even when I am on call and just working from home, my children experience the frustration of not having my undivided attention.
The perceived benefits of working from home has enabled me to hire top talent with no local geographic limits.
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But overall, relatively few of us make a habit of working from home.
But he soon began working from home, returned to his office in December, and was back on the bench by March.
When she started her company F International in 1962, the idea of people working from home was alien to most businesses.
Having been a remote worker for much of the past 20 years myself, I know the difficulties of working from home.
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Workers drop in to discuss what they are doing, which helps relieve the stress and potential loneliness of working from home.
Perhaps that is what Marissa Mayer had in mind this week when she banned Yahoo employees from working from home.
Denise, whose department is composed entirely of home workers, also believes that working from home isn't just an advantage for her team.
There are many reason why working from home can be the way to go, but it never worked well for me personally.
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