19 May 2010

Flexible Employer Endorses The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award

Last year Polly Marsh and Helen Wooldridge, from Nether Stowey, Somerset, who founded Cuddledry.com, were announced as the best remote employers and with the announcement that the 2010 The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award is now open, they encourage all employers with flexible solutions to enter.

Cuddledry manufactures and supplies towels and accessories for babies and children, employing home-based personnel. They have used home working to the advantage of all, demonstrating that home businesses can significantly exceed financial projections. Winning the Award has been a fantastic boost to the Cuddledry brand and a hugely flattering acknowledgment of the company’s commitment to flexible and rewarding working practices.

Polly said: "We have always felt that remote working was the way forward and it has been amazing to have our working model held up as an example to other businesses. We believe home working now has a clear place in serious business practice and feel we have successfully challenged the assumption that a home Polly Marsh from Cuddledry receiving The Remote Employer Award from Paula Wynne of Remote Employment Photo by ECP Studio based business cannot also be highly profitable and successful.”
Since winning the award, Cuddledry has seen a significant increase in media attention and has been able to exploit this with features in the national press and radio. Thanks to a clear and focused business plan, as well as the cost and time efficiencies inherent in the remote working model, Cuddledry has exceeded financial projections far quicker than anticipated. 

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

Paula Wynne, Founder of Remote Employment and organiser of the Remote Worker Awards, said: “It has been a highly rewarding experience to see the wide variety of talented people who embrace flexible working and seeing just how many companies champion remote working! We are looking forward to seeing more employers who embrace smarter working practise entering The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award!”

Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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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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