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Working from Home

Paul Edwards

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Fifth Edition--Revised and Expanded. A new edition of the classic guidebook that started the "Working From Home" revolution.

Paul and Sarah Edwards have completely updated their bestselling home-office guide to meet the needs of today's millions of small-business people.

This comprehensive update of America's premier guide to home-based employment features complete and easy-to-follow advice on:
-- equipping and computerizing the up-to-date home office;
-- funding your venture--and staying out of debt;
-- keeping your work and personal life separate;
-- making cyberspace work for your individual business needs, and much more.
"No home office is complete without a copy of Working From Home." --Bernadette Grey, Home Office Computing

"If I had to choose only one book for my home-office reference shelf, this is the one I would choose. It's thorough, up-to-date, informed by detailed research, user-friendly, and fun to read." --Thomas E. Miller, National Work-at-Home Survey

"No one knows the working-from-home field like Paul and Sarah Edwards." --Gil Gordon, Telecommuting Review

Momprenuers (R) Online: Using the Internet for Work at Home Success

Patricia Cobe, Ellen H. Parlapiano

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

They've really outdone themselves with this one! 5 out of 5 stars.
23 of 25 people found this review helpful.

Mompreneurs is a MUST HAVE resource for anyone wanting a home-based business. Everyone from start-ups to savvy entrepreneurs will benefit from their practical advice on working from home. It covers everything from discovering your passion, finding the right business, telecommuting, marketing, and work-from-home survival tips. Their "slice of life" interviews with real work at home moms offer valuable insight into conquering the challenges of working from home. Keep this one on your desktop for handy reference - you'll use it often!

Editorial Review:

According to the National Foundation of Women Business Owners, six in ten women business owners use the Internet with frequency. In this up-to-the-minute book, Patricia Cobe and Ellen H. Parlapiano offer these entrepreneurial women advice on how to get an at-home Web business up and running, take an existing business online, or find a company that allows telecommuting. With the sound and timely advice in Mompreneurs Online, women can build an Internet-based, kid-friendly business in the comfort (or chaos) of their very own homes.

* Target the hottest, family-friendly Web businesses
* Maximize online money-making potential with innovative marketing strategies
* Build a dynamic website-one that will keep visitors coming back again and again
* Network with other "mompreneurs" online

Telecommuting Success: A Practical Guide for Staying in the Loop While Working Away from the Office

Michael J. Dziak, Michael J. Dziak

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

This book “goes beyond the basics and…leaves no detail unmentioned when it comes to creating a successful telecommuting career,” says Gil Gordon, telecommuting pioneer and consultant, in this book's foreword.

Regular telecommuting is becoming a way of life for many employees. If you’re not careful, however, telecommuting can leave you out of touch with your workplace and manager. This book recognizes telecommuting’s pitfalls and shows you how to avoid them. It advocates that you become not just a good telecommuter, but a power telecommuter who accomplishes more, communicates better, and stays effective and visible when virtual.

Get expert guidance on all issues that telecommuters face. Here is a partial list of the many topics covered:
--Avoid the top 10 telecommuting traps
--Disarm telecommuting skeptics, including your boss and coworkers
--Master technology without becoming a technology geek
--What every home office needs—and doesn’t need
--10 time management tips you can use today
--Train yourself and your coworkers, boss, spouse, kids, pets, and neighbors
--Develop your telecommuting credibility
--Stay part of the team when working away
--Do’s and don’ts for effective communication with technology tools
--10 ways to stay on the corporate radar screen
--Earn superior performance reviews
--Signs that it’s time to visit the home office more often
--Career path strategies that work for telecommuters
--Tips for finding a telecommuting job
--Worksheets for scheduling and reporting your work, organizing your home office, and assessing your accomplishments
--Insight from industry pros on maintaining virtual relationships and handling the finer points of telecommuting
--Web resources for home office products and services, telecommuting associations, and additional information

“This book’s strength is in the countless tips, tricks, warnings, suggestions, and shortcuts that collectively mean the difference between being a telecommuter and thriving as a telecommuter,” writes Gil Gordon in the foreword.

Telecommuting Success is ideal for those who are currently telecommuting--or would like to. It also helps managers see the telecommuting employee's point of view.

An Organizational Guide to Telecommuting

George M. Piskurich

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Must-read primer on setting up telecommuting! 4 out of 5 stars.
11 of 13 people found this review helpful.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is responsible for implementing a telecommuting initiative in an organization.Piskurich covers a lot of details that I might have overlooked. Quick & easy read, great checklists at the end of each chapter, lots of useful information and ideas ...

Great Starting point for a Telecommuting program 4 out of 5 stars.
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This books tells you what an organization needs to do to implement a succesful telecommuting program. It describes in detail the characteristics common to successful telecommuters. The examples used for selection devices can really help a company in their telecommuting efforts. This book is relatively easy to read and treats each aspect with equal importance. Good starting point!

Editorial Review:

As rush-hour commutes get longer, you can guide your organization to telecommuting and the advantages it offers to employer and employee. Here's a book that explains all of the challenges and pitfalls and assists employees in moving their offices home. Checklists, sample policies, legal documents, and questions help individuals determine if the home office is where they belong.

Managing Teleworkers and Telecommuting Strategies

Gina Vega

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Much of the research in the area of telework has been more enthusiastic and optimistic than dependable. This book presents objective descriptions and experiences of telework, instead of focusing on boosterism of proponents' theories or the unexamined skepticism of naysayers. Vega specifically questions the wholesale adoption of telework as recommended by its advocates. She examines the impact of telework on the worker, as well as benefits to the employer. Telework might not be the answer to all problems, but Vega's close examination concludes with an upbeat description of what can happen--and has happened--in the best of circumstances.

The Telecommuter's Handbook: How to Earn a Living Without Going to the Office

Debra Schepp, Brad Schepp

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The best jobs and companies for telecommuters. 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This invaluable guide for would-be telecommuters describes telecommuting programs at 100 companies, including AT+T, the federal government, and Hughes Aircraft. It also describes the best jobs for telecommuters. There are plenty of tips you can use to get teleocmmuting underway at your company. It even includes a memo you can adapt that makes a case for telecommuting. The only book of its type--essential reading for would-be telecommuters, as well as the 9 million people already telecommuting.

Editorial Review:

The revised edition of this indispensable sourcebook shows employees in every business sector what it takes to participate successfully in this increasingly popular work style. Includes current information about the 50 top jobs for telecommuters, the 100 U.S companies that currently offer this option to their employees, and much more.

Telecommuting for Lawyers

Nicole Belson Goluboff

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The best book on telecommuting to date 5 out of 5 stars.
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The whole space of virtual work seems to attract a lot of casual authors. For anyone who needs to actually implement and manage a virtual work program, this is the single most important book to read.

Editorial Review:

With today's advanced software, E-mail, laptop computers, and cellular phones, telecommuting is a viable work solution for legal professionals. This book covers all the issues involved with telecommuting helping both the law firm and employee plan and monitor a successful telecommuter program. Author Nicole Belson Goluboff shares how you can turn telecommuting into a profitable solution, offering valuable advice, worksheets, and 'fill-in-the-blank' forms throughout.

Telecommuting for Lawyers covers how to:

develop policies and telecommuter authorizations

train future telecommuters

budget and save on overhead expenses

make telework inviting and familiar

design the monitor process

choose the appropriate tools

Whether you're an employer or telecommuter, this book will give you a better understanding of the necessary tools and policies for this working arrangement to be a success.

The Work-at-Home Success Bible: A Complete Guide for Women: Start Your Own Business; Balance Work and Home Life; Develop Telecommuting Strategies

Leslie Truex

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More and more women want to work from home, earning money while spending more time with their children and taking control of their lives. But they need help finding the best work-at-home jobs. And once they have the job they want, they need to know how to make it pay. This comprehensive bible shows women: how to find the job that best fits their needs; set up a home office; get organized and schedule your daily business tasks; avoid distractions such as kids, food, and television; and more. As work-from-home situations become an option for more women, they’ll reach for this handy guide to find the road to success.

Home Workplace: A Handbook for Employees and Managers

Brendan B. Read

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Editorial Review:

Reap the benefits of the home workplace revolution with this practical resource that guides managers and employees through working from home either full or part-time.

If you are charged with establishing or executing a home-work policy in your business, the book explains which functions are best suited for working from home and how to maximize the benefits to the business (such as reduced real estate costs, lower turnover, fewer sick days, more productive employees, and access to larger labor pools). It also covers the full range of issues that are essential to a successful program:

- Selecting, training and managing home workers - Effectively communicating and monitoring performance - Enabling home working via reasonable and clear home office policies, networking access, temporary desks for office visits, and IT support - Legal issues such as data privacy laws, workplace regulations, liability insurance, and taxation

If you are a current or prospective home-based worker, this book will help you to better understand and comply with management’s thinking to make working at home a success, so that you can enjoy reduced stress and increased flexibility through telecommuting. Key topics include:

- Choosing suitable home office locations and facilities - Specifying the most appropriate voice and data technology, equipment and furniture - Strategies to cope with distractions and overcome isolation

The book also provides a model home-working legal agreement, as well as a checklist of issues for home-working success.