The Naked Truth About Working From Home

By Scott Anderson

Should you "dress for success" when working from home?

Nope. What a waste!

Can you work from home and have a healthy work-life balance?

Yes, in fact, your opportunity for a balanced life improves.

Don’t risk the wrong kind of viral internet fame. Avoid the pitfalls and learn how to optimize your WFH environment to boost your productivity.

This book is for anyone who works from home, or is considering working from home. Primarily it’s aimed at those of you for whom working from home is new, or daunting. However, even if you’re a WFH veteran, I hope you’ll find some new ideas to improve your current experience.

This book is not about setting up a remote working company, and it’s certainly not one of those “How to make $1733 a week working from home” books. Rather it contains practical instructions for working from home productively, while keeping you out of trouble.

After 17 years of working remotely, I've made plenty of mistakes and learnt how to overcome challenges to achieve great results, working with entirely remote teams.

Chapter list:

Who this is for?
- WFH FTW - The benefits of working from home
- Pimp my home office - How to set up your home office
- Kicking goals - How to improve productivity
- Let it ring - Setting healthy work boundaries
- Smoke signals and carrier pigeons - How to communicate well in remote teams
- Avoiding cabin fever - How to achieve balance
- None of us is as smart as all of us - How to build strong teams
- Avoid WFH fails
- Square peg, square hole - The specifics on apps and hardware
- Like a boss - Tips for Managers
- Summing up
- About me

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scott Anderson
• Release date: Apr 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463212868

Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other war-torn countries. His previous book, Lawrence in Arabia, was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

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The naked truth about working from home

The naked truth about working from home

Scott Anderson

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Table of Contents

Who this is for?

1. WFH FTW

2. Pimp my home office

3. Kicking goals

4. Let it ring

5. Smoke signals and carrier pigeons

6. Avoiding cabin fever

7. None of us is as smart as all of us

8. Avoid WFH Fails

9. Square peg, square hole

10. Like a boss

Summing up

Notes

Who this is for?

You’ve heard the horror stories, maybe even seen the footage, of people on video calls forgetting the camera is on while they go to the bathroom or yell at the kids. Or maybe the person who told the whole company their boss was a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Don’t risk the wrong kind of viral internet fame. Read on, and not only avoid the pitfalls, but learn how to optimise your WFH environment to boost your productivity.

This mini-book is for anyone who works from home, or is considering working from home. Primarily it’s aimed at those of you for whom working from home is new, or daunting. However, even if you’re a WFH veteran, I hope you’ll find some new ideas to improve your current experience.

This book is not about setting up a remote working company, and it’s certainly not one of those How to make $1733 a week working from home books. Rather it contains practical instructions for working from home productively, while keeping you out of trouble.

You might hear ridiculous tips like Dress for success, when reading articles on working from home, but, don’t worry, you won’t find any of that rubbish in here. The advice that follows comes from 17 years of WFH experience. Over time you learn what works and what doesn’t. You also make lots of mistakes. Hopefully by reading this book I can help you avoid the worst of those.

1. WFH FTW

The benefits of working from home

Some people are afraid of working from home. Some think you’ll be less productive or feel isolated. In my opinion, working from home gives you opportunities for work-life balance and even productivity that you could never achieve while working