WFH Policy

It’s Time to Talk About Work-From-Home Policy

Are you concerned about your work-from-home policy? If so, you’re not alone! According to a recent survey, a whopping 73% of remote workers feel the same. One of the biggest causes for concern might be an unclear—or worse yet, absent—work-from-home policy. So, first thing first. If you don’t have a work-from-home policy, now is the time to make one. This policy establishes clear expectations for professionals that work remotely, removing a lot of guess-work, miscommunication, frustration, and wasted time for employer and employee alike. The Basic Components of a Work-From-Home Policy Work-from-home polices can vary depending on the scope of the employee/employer relationship. However, there are some basics that should be common across the board. In basic terms, these include: …

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8 Useful Tips to Combat Work-from-home Burnout

If you’ve ever experienced work-from-home burnout, then you know the feeling. Trouble focusing, restlessness, headaches, and even a surge in illness can be common symptoms.  I know what burnout feels like, and I am so thankful to have discovered some methods for combating the overwhelming problem of work-from-home burnout.  However, the solution did not come overnight. As with most things, I had to go through a period of trial and error before finding effective solutions.   Tired? Drink more coffee. Trouble focusing? Chide yourself and keep going anyway, or worse yet, give in to procrastination. Restless? Headaches? Illness? Medicate and move on.  Quick fixes help for a time. But here is the problem: the symptoms always come back. So, for me, …

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Working & Learning From Home: 6 Success Tips for the Whole Family

Are your children distance learning from home? Perhaps you’ve been a work-from-home pro for years. Maybe the COVID-19 pandemic is what brought you home to do your work. Either way, you’re successful at what you do, and every day is productive for you. It shouldn’t be any different when the kids are learning from home. But now that the traditional school day has changed—morphing from one in which students attend school, go to class, complete their assignments, stay after school or extracurricular activities, go home and repeat the process the next day to a virtual, learning-from-home endeavor—you’re looking at ways to ensure success for not only yourself but your school-aged children as well.  And you can do it by creating places …

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One Simple Way a Work-from-home Mom Builds a Happy Home

My first child was a baby when I began working from home. I imagined that working from home would be such a joy because I would spend every waking hour with my little one. I would not miss out on his first words, his first steps, or any of those important moments that only come once in a lifetime. This proved to be mostly true.

Work From Home Content Ideas

308 Work From Home Content Ideas

Are you looking for content ideas about working from home? Maybe you want to create guest content for our blog. Here are hundreds of work from home content ideas to help you get started.  Work From Home Content List How to work from home? What are the best work-from-home jobs? What website offers a legit way to work from home? What is the best online home based job? The Best Jobs Working From Home What are the best websites that offer remote jobs? Are there any online jobs or work from home jobs? How can one work online from home legitimately? Can most software developers work from home? How to find a real remote position? Hourly Work From Home Jobs …

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Work from Home 3 Simple Steps for Employers

Work from Home as a Permanent Option – 3 Simple Steps

Employees are asking to continue their work from home. What do you need to know about making work from home a permanent option for employees? Who should be eligible? How are business operations affected? What about insurance and workers’ compensation policies? As a virtual accounting firm operating under a distributed model since 2013, we, at Summit CPA, have experienced the transition from conducting business in a physical office environment to having our team entirely remote in a virtual office setting. With that said, we have some advice for business leaders regarding the steps they should consider taking if they would like to offer their employees the option of working from home indefinitely. Fortunately, these steps are simple and easy to …

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Virtual Teacher Communication with Parents & Students (5 Useful Tips)

Teachers all around the country have been thrown into virtual classrooms. Now that so many of you are virtual teachers, I wanted to share some of my tips on how you can communicate virtually with your parents and students. These are tips that I’ve learned that both parents and students respond to during my experience as a full-time virtual teacher in a public elementary school.