19 January 2009

January brings hope ...


We didn't get much time off over the festive season as we were in the process of getting a couple of sales people on board. Next year will be a longer break for sure! It gave us the chance to refresh not only ourselves, but our business objectives!

2009 was launched with a cold start for most of the country and a warm toasty feeling at Remote Employment as we looked back over the past year.It is almost one year since we launched and so much has happened to us since then. It was a great time to learn so much about our business and we know now that we are even more determined than ever to build our idea of remote working.We achieved loads of news coverage and won two awards in November!

We are seeing Jamie Quinn of Global Action Plan in the next week to start our audit towards achieving a BS8555 National Certificate to lower our carbon footprint. Of course, remote working and home working goes a long way to achieving this. We are looking forward to working with Jamie and Global Action Plan to educate ourselves and our web viewers on ways to work in harmony with the environment.

Our plan for staffing Remote Employment is one of the objectives we are working on with Karen. This year will be focused on increasing growth. We started the year with a good pipeline and with the prospect on more people on board to help grow revenue, we will lift our heads above the hype of doom and gloom of the unemployment frenzy.

Strangely enough, now is a good time for us as many employers are seeing the value in outsourcing and offering flexible work options to suit their budgets, which gives employees a quality work life.We now need to highlight the benefits of remote and home working to businesses and show how they can still employ people during the economic situation just by changing to new ways of working. We have some very exciting plans in action to highlight how remote working can benefit the environment, employees and business growth so watch this space!
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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.

If you have any suggestions on working from home, please submit your articles to grace@remoteemployment.com.

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