If you work from home, I’m sure you’ll agree that it can be a juggling act at times. Working at home is an option not only for self-employed individuals. According to Global Workplace Analytics, 3.7 million employees (2.8% of the workforce) now work from home at least half the time. They further report that 22% of the self-employed population (2.8 million individuals) work primarily from home.

Work From Home – The Plus and Minus

The advantages of working from home are numerous, and the benefits are plenty. Here are few pluses:

• No stress driving from work and home
• No dress code
• More time to exercise
• Learn to use your time more efficiently
• No office rents

A few Con’s include:

• Can’t hold a business meeting in your home
• Family members don’t believe you are in “work mode.”
• Uninvited guests
• Can feel isolated
• Noisy children

Emily at CupcakesandCashmere.com in “10 Tips on Working from Home” covers ten tips on how we can work successfully from home. Her real-life experience is the basis of her ideas. She shares the changes she has made over the past seven years.

10 Tips on Working From Home

I’ve worked for myself, from home, for nearly five years. In the beginning, it wasn’t pretty. There were some days when G would come home and I’d be slumped in the couch in the same spot where I’d said goodbye to him in the morning. I hadn’t gotten up to shower or even brush my teeth, so you would have assumed that I was wildly productive. But that wasn’t the case. Read the rest of the post…

 

 

 

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