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Filing Your Taxes
You’ll find that filing your taxes as a teleworker is much the same as it was as a regular employee. You probably know the drill: Your employer deducts income tax from your paychecks and reports this...
View ArticleStrategies for Work-at-Home Success
You made it happen! Negotiated with your boss, found a new job, or lined up enough freelance clients to call yourself a teleworker. Now you can crank up the music, put your feet on your desk, and … oh...
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Draw Limits for Friends and Family
If your mom is used to calling and launching into a 20-minute story without drawing a breath, you’ve now got the perfect excuse to cut it off: “Sorry, but these are my work hours, and my boss expects...
View ArticleShow Your Stuff
Whether or not you negotiated a trial work-at-home period, you are, in some sense, on trial. Sure, your boss may trust you, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as Cervantes wrote in Don...
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Come Out of Your Cave
We’re not kidding when we say that you wouldn’t be the first person to become a little infatuated with the UPS delivery person. (Google “crush on UPS man” and you’ll see what we mean.) And for many...
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Keep Yourself in the Loop
When you’re in a traditional office, who are you most likely to ask a question of or share a joke with—the person sitting at the desk nearby or the one working at home? Most people turn to live humans...
View ArticleDon’t Hit “Send” When You’re Mad
You’ll be doing a lot of communicating by email—which is both convenient and dangerous. No longer can you rush down the hall to undo the damage or check the look on your e-correspondent’s face. One...
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Check in With Yourself
After you’ve been telecommuting a few weeks or a few months, take stock. Is it turning out as you’d hoped, or have you just replaced one set of work concerns with another? Have you gotten into any...
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Check in With Your Manager and Coworkers
You may feel that your work-at-home arrangement is working just fine, but what about your manager and coworkers? You’ll need their support to make a successful transition to teleworking. Poll them...
View ArticleExplore the Possibilities
Once you’ve proven to yourself and others that you can be a successful, productive teleworker, a world of options opens up to you. We’re not recommending destroying the routine you’ve so carefully...
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