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The Snug Office - working from home podcast

WorkSnug podcast on working from home

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8 months ago
by Judy in , ,
On my last trip to London, for the How to Work from Home – The Inside Guide meet-up, San Sharma, the community manager of WorkSnug, invited me along to The Snug Office. I was delighted to discover the office is in Limehouse, not far from where I was staying, and even had plans to walk there along [...]
5 places to work when you don't want to work from home

5 places to work when you don’t want to work from home

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10 months ago
by Judy in ,
Today’s guest post is by San Sharma, an old long-standing home working friend of mine. Over to you, San: Working from home is great. I’ve been doing it, on and off, for about five years. There are times, however, when the allure of the television, the biscuit tin or the unmade bed are too much [...]
Central, venue for How to Work from Home

Eating frogs and Darwinian walking at How to Work from Home

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10 months ago
by Judy in , , ,
Those were just two of the tips shared by the home workers who came along to my first meet-up at Central last week! In the relaxing surroundings of the downstairs room, a home from home with its colourful cushions and rugs, there was much laughter and relief at how many challenges and thoughts we [...]
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How to Work from Home – live in London!

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1 year ago
by Judy in , , , ,
Today is National Work from Home Day and I hope you’re all savouring the freedom and delights that home working allows! What perfect timing to announce some exciting new plans I have for sharing home working information in a different way: I’ve got together with the lovely people at Central, the [...]
Home working bag lady

Home working bag lady

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1 year ago
by Judy in ,
Last week we spent three very busy days in London, meeting old and new friends and business contacts. I had appointments in places all over central London and carried my laptop around to find cafes and other places I could get online. (The Royal Festival Hall is my latest discovery – loads of [...]
Home workers meeting for coffee

Isolation – the biggest dream killer for home workers

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1 year ago
by Judy in , ,
I’ve worked from home for over 20 years and found that being able to pick and choose my time with other people suits my tendency to introversion. Despite being happy with my own company, however, I’ve always been surprised by how often I need to ‘top up’ by getting out and talking to others. But [...]
Skype for home workers

Lonely working from home? Just Skype!

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1 year ago
by Judy in ,
So, what response to the question about how extrovert home workers can cope when they can’t go out coworking? Well, one answer came up almost as soon as I’d asked the question! I use Skype regularly for conference calls with my fellow BIG Jelly (more of which soon) organisers Jan and Fay, and [...]

Home working backlog

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1 year ago
by Judy in
Yesterday was one of those days I just had to get away from the desk and make a change in my routine, so after the usual morning jobs of blog, Twitter, emails and so on, A and I set off for Salisbury, less than 30 miles from here. And very glad we were too, as the leaves in the countryside en [...]

Don’t get it perfect, get it out there!

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1 year ago
by Judy in
On Friday we published the new home working style page, despite my doubts about the page presentation, which seemed a major flaw given the subject matter! But I decided to go ahead on the basis of ‘don’t get it perfect, get it out there’ as advocated by my friend and mentor Nick Williams, and my [...]

Home working style page

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1 year ago
by Judy in , ,
Hurray, it’s finally time for A and I to reveal the new page on Home working style, which came about as a result of the huge response I received in comments and on Twitter to the post Home working wardrobe. There is a stereotype of home workers not caring about what they wear, but obviously [...]
home working in an ivory tower

Are you home working in an ivory tower?

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1 year ago
by Judy in ,
Last night, in need of some easy entertainment for an hour, I watched an episode of New Tricks on iPlayer. I strongly sympathised with Brian, the dippy member of the team, as he was thrown out of the local library for bellowing ‘Silence!’ when the singing toddlers, mobile phone users and iPods [...]

Catching up – crashpadding & home offices

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1 year ago
by Judy in
I’m back now from my brief trip to London, head buzzing and full of new thoughts and ideas. There’s a lot to take in – not only from my first sessions on the KPI programme, but also my first experience of crashpadding, which I mentioned last week in Working away from home. I suppose it might seem [...]

Working away from home

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1 year ago
by Judy in ,
Later this week I’m off to London to start the Key Person of Influence programme with Daniel Priestley and Mike Harris, who set up Egg and First Direct. The offer to stay in a friend’s flat while he was away hasn’t worked out, so I needed somewhere to lay my head for the night, preferably in or [...]
Work from home extrovert or introvert?

Knowing me, knowing you – aha!

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1 year ago
by Judy in ,
Last week in the post about turning home working horrors into hurrays, Kyle Newman mentioned that extrovert and introvert home workers probably respond in different ways to the threat of becoming isolated. Extroverts are generally understood to be outgoing people who like socialising and talking, [...]

Pets for home workers cont

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1 year ago
by Judy in ,
Further to my post last week about home working routines on bank holidays, I decided on a kind of half-way course – to do a post today but to make it a lighthearted follow-up to the piece on home workers’ pets. As well as the comments on the post, I received quite a few tweets. Dog people came [...]
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