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Out Of The Office: Making the transition to working from home (Healthy Happy Homeworking) Kindle Edition

by Maya Middlemiss (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Part of: Healthy Happy Homeworking (2 books)

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Making the transition from a lifetime of office-based work to successful, contented, and productive working from home, isn’t as simple as it sounds - nor as simple as the world needed it to be, in the 2020 global health crisis.

Doing homeworking well requires new skills in any role, from self-management to wrangling new technology and tools.
But the good news is, the collaboration environment has made a decade’s worth of progress in a few short months, and as the world reshapes itself for the new normality, you can choose to carve out a meaningful and productive life of working from home, on your own terms.

In Out Of The Office: Making the transition to working from home, 20 year work-from-home veteran Maya Middlemiss helps you discover the choices and benefits homeworking can bring into your life, whether you’re an employee or an entrepreneur, and encourages you to see past the immediate reactive situation and embrace all that working from home has to offer as a long term option that suits you. From finding your first location-independent role to setting up a viable home office whatever your constraints, it’s all here, in the first volume of the Healthy Happy Homeworking series - helping you get organised, stay positive, and develop the right home office routine.

“Having worked from home for the last 15 years, I can honestly say that I wish I had had this guide for all that time. Super useful advice, some of which have even made me change my ways after so long. If you are considering working from home, or you already do, I encourage you to get this guide now, you honestly will not regret it, and will certainly benefit from it. The friendly style of writing means you can devour it all in one sitting, or keep referring to it whenever you need to. This book will have pride of place on my coffee table!”

Rebecca Sian Wey, Account Manager Spain, Channel Factory

“Before this year I would never have considered working from home, and it was a bit chaotic to start with. But now my department is consulting about our long term future arrangements, and I am trying to work out what I really want from my work and personal life going forward - Out Of The Office has been really useful in helping me think about this, and realise I have choices. I think I can see a way to make it work, if not having it all then at least having what I want - not an outcome I expected from 2020.”

Robert K., Essex County Council, UK

Whether you chose to work from home or had it forced upon you, the world of work is changing, and there’s every chance your primary work activity will require new flexibility for the long haul. Preparing yourself for that scenario in emotional, practical, technical and productivity terms, is the best investment you can make right now in future-proofing your career.

This is the guide you need, to successfully navigate the new normality.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08N1HGWX1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Healthy Happy Homeworking (November 17, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 17, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 384 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 86 pages

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"The storyteller from the future" - I love to write about the future of work, money, business and society. Words are so powerful, and so is the human imagination - working at this intersection is creative and fun.

Outside of writing I am a native Brit living in Spain, mother of teenagers, and lover of nature and hiking.

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May be helpful to those in the UK

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020

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In the year of COVID-19, working from home has become a common trend. Some of us were forced into it, of course, while others made it a choice. Either way, how do you cope with the new way of life?

First, this book begins with defining “work from home.” This mostly consisted on battling the myth and people’s misconception, which didn’t sound relevant to me. This just seemed like the author was spewing a bunch of useless jargon.

Chapter 2 shares statistics and anecdotes, which I really didn’t get anything from it. Probably because the stats were based on the UK, and I’m the U.S.

Book states that one of the pros of working from home is having time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Not sure if I agree. I’ve been working from home since the pandemic started this year and I honestly work more now than when I was actually working a job. I actually put more hours into it, making less time for me to do anything else. I do save money on gas though.

Chapter 3 explains home work and self-employment.

All in all, this book didn’t really say anything new or help me in any way. There was nothing concrete in it. I’m already structured and disciplined; I love what I do and I’m making a profit from it. Really I should’ve quite my job a long time ago to start this work-from-home gig. I’ve always wanted to quit my job, but then fate took care of it for me. So thank you, COVID!

Although this book didn’t really help me, it may help others, especially if they’re in the UK. I do have to say that the book is rather is expensive at $2.99 for 86 pages.

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Harry

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2021

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An interesting read. I had over a decade of home working with a large British Telco so a lot of what I read here rings true. For a Telecommunications employer it was not really a tough decision to home-base it’s employees, more of a practice what you preach decision. As an employee, the only issues I found centred around Boundaries and Team Bonding, the big issue of personal Motivation was never a problem, so it was good to read all of the “upsides” of home working being discussed here. All of this positivity for home working in the book also applies to my current “retired” status, time management, practicalities arranging the home office, keeping upto date with Technology are still very relevant. So recommend for “retired home workers” too.

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Bookworm Literatus

Nice but basic book

Reviewed in India on December 5, 2020

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The books goes about methodically listing down the thinking process about the decision to work from home. It talks about the pros and cons of the decision and takes you through the structured way of making that decision. Once you have decided, the book tells you how to make it a success by giving you useful hints. Will be useful for someone who is absolutely a newbie in the whole work from home game.

AmyC

Very timely, super-helpful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2020

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A homeworker for 20 years, Maya knows exactly what she is writing about, and spells it out in a very direct, straightforward way. This book should be at every home-worker’s side for the crucial information and advice that will ensure success in all our home-working challenges. She is also very open and likeable, so it reads like having encouraging support from a knowledgeable friend who has your interests very much at heart.

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