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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 Tweet went viral and encouraged others working from home during the pandemic to share some truths about remote working. Remote workers can be very imaginative when preparing for online meetings.

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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. It may be up to the employer to decide on what benefits they offer (subject to local rules and laws).

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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? Watch Out for Phantom Power Suckers. Dress for the Weather.

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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

This post, which is a conversation between the two of us, is also up on Nicolette’s site. 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.

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Always connected in the age of disconnection

Workplace Insight

Those poor bastards locked up in enclosed spaces linked to the outside world only by screens. As the writer Alan Moore believes in his own way, the language we use casts a spell and summons up all kinds of things, horrific and beautiful. We don’t seem to talk about it as an alien concept anymore. This is the age of disconnection.

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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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