Work At Home Experts

Catherine Roseberry, who is the Mobile Technology Guide at About.com, offers some Work at Home Strategies that can be helpful in terms of organizing and separating your work and chores priorities.

Here’s what she says about organizing your Work routine for those of us who work at home:

Telephone calls and dealing with email can be two of the biggest time wasters we have.
Keep all calls short and on topic. It’s not the time for socializing and catching up on gossip.

Have separate email accounts for work and personal use. Leave reading the personal email until you are not on “the clock”.

Working in a remote environment it can be very easy to get side tracked and forget what your original purpose was. Make sure you stay focused and if you have to, use a timer. Set time limits for how long you have to work on a specific task. Don’t set unreasonable limits, as you will frustrate yourself.

Keep favorite sites and search engines bookmarked. This will save valuable time. Save information in a text file that lists different sites and what information is found there.

Save your reading/writing/training for times when you know that you will not have to worry about interruptions. Nothing is worse than trying to learn something new and having the phone ringing from co-workers asking questions or looking for information.

      Now about chores:

Your first priority, especially when working from your home office is your job. Save chores for after work hours or for break times. If you allow yourself to get caught up in household chores, you will not get any work done.

Don’t forget you still need regular breaks and time to eat. It is too easy to get caught up in work and miss meals or not take a break and you will pay for that later.

Organizing your day to include regular breaks and scheduling your work tasks will enable you to work much smarter and it will also be lesss stressful.