13 May 2010

Claire Young Judges 2010 Remote Worker Awards

Following a highly successful inaugural awards in 2009, Remote Employment in association with BT Business, today launches The 2010 Remote Worker Awards. The Remote Worker Awards is delighted to welcome Claire Young from The Apprentice to the prestigious panel of judges.15th September 2009 Picture: Apprentice star Claire Young for WWW feature. PICTURE: MATTHEW PAGE

The Awards are unique as the only business awards recognising employers for their flexible working solutions and employees for showing that remote and home based working can improve business productivity, improve work life balance and help the environment.

The 10 award categories will appeal to a wide variety of organisations applying flexible working practises plus millions of freelancers, contractors and home businesses across the country.

Claire will help judges Karen Darby, Richard Alvin, Debbie Bird and others to choose companies and individuals who champion this modern way of working.

Claire said: "I am delighted to be supporting The Remote Worker Awards! I am keen to highlight how remote and home working benefits and gives people a better quality work life."

Some of the highlights for this year will be:

Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award
This Award Category is open to anyone who is NOT in business and wants to start up a new internet business. Entrants are invited to submit ideas for a new website business or online ecommerce business. The winner will receive their own website worth £1,500 to start up and run an internet business from home. Read more details about The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award.

The Microsoft Remote Worker Award
The Microsoft Remote Worker Award is for employees whose employers promote flexible working solutions with home working options or remote working. Read more details about The Microsoft Remote Worker Award.

The Arise Be Your Own Boss Award
Someone NOT working from home who wants to be their own boss will win a home based franchise from Snippets worth £10k and runners up will each be awarded a small business start up kit. Read more details about The Arise Be Your Own Boss Award.

Helen O' Grady Special Award
Entrants who want to use their teaching and drama skills to work interactively with children will win a £15k home based franchise from Helen O' Grady! Read more details about The Helen O' Grady Special Award.

The Babyworld Parentpreneur Award
The Babyworld Parentpreneur Award is open to businesses, large or small, that can show the most successful business and family combination. Read more details about The Babyworld Parentpreneur Award.


The BT Home Business Award
The BT Home Business Award Category is open to anyone running a home business, large or small, that can demonstrate how they promote flexible working solutions with home working options or remote working. Read more details about The BT Home Business Award.

The OfficePOD Award
The OfficePOD Award is for employees and employers who want to change the way they work and be involved with the next workplace generation. The winner will receive an OfficePOD for six months worth £5,5k. Read more details about The OfficePOD Award.

BlackBerry Remote Employer Award
The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award is for employers and companies that promote flexible working solutions with home working options or remote working. Also open to companies planning to implement a remote workforce. Read more details about The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award.

A full list of the other award categories can be found at www.remoteworkerawards.com.
Paula Wynne, organiser of the awards and co-founder of Remote Employment, a job site specialising in flexible, remote and home working, expects to unearth an abundance of inventive pioneers who champion flexibility with remote working solutions.

Paula said: “We are very excited to once again be hosting The Remote Worker Award, in association with BT Business. This year will prove to be another success with some fantastic prizes on offer.”

The Remote Worker Awards is open to all individuals and any company in the UK, regardless of size, industry sector or turnover.

Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

For more information or any other enquiry about the Remote Worker Awards, call 0844 800 8355 or browse www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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How to set up a home office ...

Before you set up a work station at home, check out our Seven Top Tips on how to work from home:

Your Home Office
Ideally, you will have a spare room to create a home office. If not, a corner of another room, will be fine as long as you are not constantly distracted in the family fast lane. Set up your kitSet up your computer, files and phone to give you maximum comfort for long hours. Have enough plug points for PC, printer, phone, scanner, mobile charger, fax machine and answer phone. Even better get an all in once mod con to save on a jumble of cables and wires.

Pick your desk location
You should be able to see the door of the office from where you are sitting or at least more of your surroundings. Beware of facing the garden and the bird bath – too tempting to watch the world go by! A hard chair will give you backache so spend a little extra on a good one.

Working Hours
Working outside 'normal' working hours helps to balance your work and home life so don't feel guilty dashing off to take the lads to footie after school, as long as you get your work done. Catching up in the early morning or later in the evening works well, but also watch out for going OTT. Make sure you close down and walk away at some point or the family will go hungry.

Have a breather
No matter what kind of work you do or what home you do it in, you can go bonkers if you spend 24 hours a day at it. Get out, whenever you can, to clear your head and to see other people. Use lunch time as a good break to pop down to pick up groceries for dinner, step outside to feed the birds during your coffee break or walk the dog around the block to clear the cobwebs. This is also a great way to mull over a document or get inspiration for new ideas.

Keep in Touch
Have no fear that your social life at work comes to an end if you leave your office to work from home, in fact in some cases your relationship with your colleagues may improve. Email is instant but be careful of 'funnies' – they can eat up a huge chunk of time. Chat through business issues by phone and meet for a quick bite every now and then.

Goal scoring
Give yourself little goals and objectives and then reward yourself when they are complete. Make sure family and friends know your hours or days of working at home and stick to that. Don't be tempted to pop over for a coffee or cook a large meal. Give yourself this time as a reward for getting up early on a Monday to finish a long-winded report. Or if you score well with a new client take five to put your feet up before the school run. Whatever incentives work for you, use them to motivate yourself to balance your time around your other responsibilities.

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