Comments on: Six Effective Tips to Work from Home

By: wrs

wrs — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:16:26 +0000

I find that dressing professionally -not necessarily suit and tie – in a home office makes a diference in attitude and allows you to treat the home office as more of an office

By: Jay Fleischman

Jay Fleischman — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:30:05 +0000

I think it's also important to have "buy-in" on your work-at-home arrangement if you've got a spouse, roommate, etc. It's easy for a significant other to assume that, because you're home, you'll have the ability to pick up the dry cleaning, do the laundry, and run other errands. Not to say that working at home does not provide additional flexibility, but the fact is that the flexibility must be considered part of your normal schedule.

By: Lisa Solomon

Lisa Solomon — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:08:43 +0000

I agree with all of lifehack’s suggestions, but I think that child care is a necessity for home-based workers who intend to work full-time. There is simply no way you can concentrate on work and care for a young child at the same time.