9 August 2010

BlackBerry Remote Employer Finalists Announced

Seven companies that promote flexible working solutions with a remote workforce, have been selected as Finalists in The Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business.

The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award, is aimed at identifying and honouring budding enterprisers who have proved how home working and remote working has made a beneficial impact on their business.

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 Finalists Are:
Amanda Potter, Zircon Management Consulting, Coulsdon, Surrey
Andrew Mills, AltruWorld, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Rachel Newell, Max Resourcing, Newark, Notts
Michael McKerlie, RAN ONE Europe, Richmond On Thames, London
Jo Victoria Russell, Institute of Payroll Professionals, Solihull, West Midlands
Tracy Light, TJL Marketing, Harpenden, Herts
Jayne Smith, Document Direct, Liverpool, Merseyside

They all now compete against other finalists at the winning ceremony, which will be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

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.

Shortlist Summary
Zircon is an entrepreneurial Business Psychology Company specialising in Talent Assessment, Development, Coaching and Engagement Consulting. Established in 2000 by Amanda Potter, Zircon draws their expertise from a team of 140 remote consultants to deliver creative solutions for their clients. Amanda’s choice to run Zircon as a remote business was three-fold: Cost, Environment and Lifestyle.
AltruWorld is a unique web-based ‘Business Dating Agency’ that matches businesses with customers - according to their needs, ethics and service quality. Businesses receive enquiries anonymously, making large savings on marketing costs, giving businesses the advantage of controlling any uptake without losing face. Customers also benefit by restricting who contacts them.

Providing a tailored recruitment consultancy service, Max Resourcing supports customers and candidates throughout Europe equally, by being flexible and available at a time which works best for both parties, in order to bring the opportunity and talent together.

RAN ONE is an international network of accountants and advisors who enjoy more lucrative and rewarding practices by helping their business clients achieve greater success. They design and develop world-class resources that enable members (and their clients) to enhance what RAN ONE calls “professional wellbeing”: the synergy of work, people, money, and life.

The IPP is the only professional body for individuals working in payroll in the UK and represents more than 5,000 members. Founded in 1985, the Institute is the single largest provider of part-time, professional payroll and pension education. Its aim is to achieve chartered status so that people in payroll are given the same recognition consistent with other professional occupations.


TJL Marketing allows highly skilled professionals the chance to work in an exciting and challenging industry without the constraints of a 9 to 5 day. The TJL team are loyal, passionate and committed to Tracy Light, the founder, who has developed her business model with flexibility at its core.

Document Direct is a 100% remote service business. They are an outsource typing agency giving their clients access to a team of remote secretaries 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Their secretaries work from the comfort of their own homes and choose their own hours of work to suit their lifestyle.    

More information can be found at 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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