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The Secret Life Of Colleagues

Allwork

Many remote workers have learned to create a facade — concealing the real state of their home offices. The fact that the camera function used in remote meetings reveals a relatively small area of the overall work-from-home environment was a blessing.

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Who’s Stuck With The Bill?

Allwork

The rise in working remotely comes with several costs, which include internet subscriptions, computers and office equipment, home office furniture, security, insurance, and software. Those costs include internet subscriptions, computers and office equipment, home office furniture, security, insurance, and software.

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Working Green – Simple Ways to Make Your Home Office More Eco-Friendly

Eco-Office Gals

If you are a freelancer who works from home, have you ever considered the impact that your home office makes on the environment? How could you alter your surroundings or habits so that you make your home office even greener? Gradually Make the Switch. Simple but still progress. Green Tips Guest Post'

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Tips on Staying Focused and Disciplined When Working From Home

Office Dynamics

Come tax time, they may be able to deduct a lot of their home office-related expenses. To stay on top of things and be organized in your work, you need to have a dedicated home office. The space should be free of distractions and ideally have a door that you can close if you are trying to work when family is home.

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A Conversation about Clutter with Nicolette Toussaint

Clutter Coach

Perhaps this was because I had recently divorced someone who filled every nook and cranny of the house with magazines, books, collections, clothes, you name it!). I have a client whose home office is also a playroom. On the other hand, sometimes people set up fancy home offices that they never work in.

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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

Workplace Insight

Arguably, it is also behind many of the most misleading notions about work and workplace design, perhaps most importantly that a change to some single element or characteristic of a working environment will lead to a specific outcome in the behaviour of people. It’s not even as if people can expect to be less distracted than in an office.

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Always connected in the age of disconnection

Workplace Insight

In a Medium article entitled Working from Home: Emancipation or Alienation of the White-Collar Worker , Maya Drøschler reports on the different experiences of remote work: “To some, it has been a pleasant experience, to others working from home has been lonely and exhausting. That would seem unlikely.

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