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Remote Working Part 2 – Best practises

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The main reason individuals fail to adapt to working remotely is they don’t see the essential requirement of first class organisation and robust self discipline.

I have been toiling remotely for nearly 8 yrs since I first discovered Quickbooks online an ‘on demand’ small business accounting software online system and was amazed by the fact that if you can do accounting online then why shouldn’t it be possible to perform other important types of work at a distance?

Whilst working remotely has substantial gains there are numerous mistakes that people make which evolve into issues that cause reduced productivity and lower motivation. The most significant reason for decreases in effectiveness in remote employees is interruption and it is a verified and well publicised fact that it can take a worker up to twenty minutes to return to their original output level after experiencing a distraction.

Deeper insights reveal that men and women who are regularly experience disturbances are more likely to be susceptible to lower memory capacity and are prone to developing mental health issues in old age. We live in an over communicated world and it is essential that you are acquainted with the problems this causes before you commence working remotely. Whilst working remotely you have to do everything possible to remove the probability of being disrupted.

Here are things that really do work:

1, Get a consistent schedule, tell everyone about it and obsessively maintain it!

Good examples are a specific time of day when you review or compose and reply to mail and make or be available for telephone conversatiions. Before I began working remotely I used to get nearly a couple of hundred e-mails every 24 hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I receive over 4. To ‘restart’ my e-mail experience I altered my e-mail address and vigorously took precautions to protect the details being made available to anyone. I then made sure everybody who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it wisely and sparingly. I also configured an automatic reply that swiftly told anyone sending me mail my routine for reading mail and if an e-mail needed my urgent consideration to mark it as ‘Urgent’.

2. Get rid of alerts.

Disable every feature that can send you a perceptible alert. This includes cell and
ordinary handsets and forms of alerts from electronic mail such as display events, beeps, display changes to your inbox list and of course facing a window. Get a door on your office and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.

In ‘Remote Working Part 3 – Essential tools’ I will reveal my favourite tools and software.

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