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Steps for Creating a Paperless Home Office

Productivity Bits

We’ve all been there: Keeping and storing documents that we deemed important throughout the years only to walk into the home office space one day and see a mountain of papers staring back. This can be magnified ten-fold if you work from home. Creating a paperless home office is a two-part process.

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Tax Planning for Freelancers: 5 Strategic Moves To Make Now To Avoid Tax Pain Next Year

Allwork

While the dust from the 2023 tax filing season has long since settled, if you are a freelance worker, independent contractor , or digital nomad, now isn’t the time to forget about your taxes. Part of that process starts with taking notes on how you work, for how many hours, and from where. While celebrating U.S.

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Ask Anastacia: Why Are Humans Lousy at Estimating the Time They Need to Do Things?

Virtual Moxie

The process in your brain was, “write short email.” Add the attachments (which involves finding the files, choosing the files, attaching the files, and waiting for them to upload as attachments to the email. You think it’s only going to take you a few minutes, and it takes at least twice that. Hit the Compose button.

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Why Your Boss Isn’t Coming To The Office

Allwork

These biases, deeply ingrained in our thought processes, can subtly influence our decisions, relationships , and behaviors, often without our conscious awareness. While some might thrive in a remote work environment, others might prefer the structure and social interaction that an office environment provides.

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Your Home Business: Is It Business As Usual in the Midst of COVID-19 Social Distancing?

Tips From T. Marie

Those of us who already own a home-based business are lucky. We already know the ins and outs of working from home. We use online technology like Zoom to conduct business meetings regularly and accessing files from cloud storage like Dropbox is old hat. I’m using the same software, the same services and the same processes.

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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

Success

Although a doughnut with sprinkles might look better, Loney says to add them later in the day since sprinkling is a less complex process—and 9 a.m. Her top suggestions: Establish a work-to-home transition: Your workday needs a hard stop—your brain can’t optimize for home or family life if it’s still in work mode. – 3 p.m.

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Eight Ways to Eliminate Paper and Clutter in Your Office

Ian's Messy Desk

Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday or at least until someone cleans out those files. Despite improvements in document handling technology, despite the convenience of PDF files, we still produce a lot of paper. DELAY IT.

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