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First Time Teleworking? Chief Home Officer Is Your Resource

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March 15th, 2020 Comments Off on First Time Teleworking? Chief Home Officer Is Your Resource

The coronavirus pandemic is changing the American and global workplace. White-collar, “information-based” workers are being told to keep working – but not from the office. For millions, that means telework. If you’ve never worked from home and have no clue where to begin, we can help. Since 1995, Chief Home Officer has been a leading resource to help teleworkers and entrepreneurs learn how to design, create, and get work done from a home-based workplace. Surf around, download and share the free Chief Home Officer’s Guide to Telework Home Office Design & Set-Up, and we’ll get through this together. When the dust settles, you and your company may just keep on teleworking.

Desktop Calendars – The O.G. home office organizer

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June 23rd, 2022 Comments Off on Desktop Calendars – The O.G. home office organizer

Some might think the “desktop calendar” died off when the digital notepad came along. But for those who scribble notes on the fly, doodle to keep the mind active, or just need a place for a quick reminder, a URL, email address or phone number, desk mats remain an important home office accessory.

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Home Officing Helps Good Kids Become Great Adults

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April 25th, 2020 Comments Off on Home Officing Helps Good Kids Become Great Adults

Dad & kids, circa 1998

This month, as the coronavirus forced millions of Americans home to work and open a brave new chapter in their lives, our family was closing one of our own. Zoe, our third of three children, completed college.

Twenty-eight years ago, we welcomed Nicole, our first child, into our home, where I worked – then, and now – as a full-time, home-based business owner. With three years of home officing already under my belt, and wife Robbie’s work as an RN keeping her at home four or more days a week, bringing a child home to be raised by both parents seemed pretty seamless at the time.

If only Corporate America got the memo about the benefits of teleworking and working from home – now called “WFH” – back then. But more on that later.

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Home Office is Where You Make It

Commentary, Creature Comforts, design, Productivity & Efficiency, SOHO Workstyles
April 20th, 2020 Comments Off on Home Office is Where You Make It

When some people say they’re working from home, they should be a little more specific. I’ve had a dedicated and bona fide home office since quitting my last day job and 1989. It’s been as formal as some cube downtown, albeit the attire was a little more loose.

As technology has evolved, however, so has the definition of my “office.”

They say “work” is a thing, not a place. The thinking is that work can get done regardless of where the worker finds himself. In the office, a coworking space, a seat at Starbucks or on a jet. Or the home. But does it have to be a dedicated “office”? Increasingly, the answer would seem be Maybe Not.

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Telework Times: Home Office Decluttering

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April 14th, 2020 Comments Off on Telework Times: Home Office Decluttering

This isn’t just another article about telework, WFH, or people rushed into remote work in their new home office. It’s about a cry for help from a home officer. Many first-time remote workers, when forced to work from their existing home offices, find it’s not the right space for them. Clutter has overgrown the workspace and a cleaning out is in order.

Lee wasn’t a first-timer. He’s worked from home for years. Yet this long-time friend and talented nature photographer messaged me recently about needing some help decluttering his home office. A life’s and career’s worth of comics and technology books, LP albums, obsolete tech hardware – along with the current computer hardware he uses for his IT work and digital photography business – had swamped his space. So much so that it had sprawled from his office into his grown-and-flown kids’ bedrooms. It was a cry for help from a man overwhelmed by the detritus of his home-based workspace.

What could he do? Lee was hoping for the soft touch of a scalpel. Instead, we decided to break out a meat cleaver to carve away years of accumulated stuff.

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Telework Video’s On: What Are You Broadcasting?

Security, Technology, Telework & Virtual Officing
April 9th, 2020 Comments Off on Telework Video’s On: What Are You Broadcasting?

Imagine tens of millions of laptops sent out beyond the corporate hive. Or just the five, 10, 5o, or 100 that you’ve provided your loyal team so they could telework effectively from their home offices. Then imagine the untold sums you’ve spent hiring teams and licensing software to create a protective web against hackers, phishing, malware, ransomware, and other threats.

Then, some unwitting member of your team opens their laptop to log on to a web conference – and your (and their) privates are open for the world to see. Open for hackers to hack, Chinese programmers reportedly to embed nefarious code, or even – maybe a bit more playfully and personally painfully – coworkers to peep in on the privates your people reveal. If it doesn’t frighten your CEO, corporate counsel, or self out of your senses, you’ll be very comfortable in the video conferencing world.

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