How to Get Your Employer to Allow you to Work From Home
It’s a tense moment when you ask the question about working from home. You worry your boss or colleagues won’t take you seriously; that they will suspect you are looking for an excuse to slack off. You wonder whether it’s too good to be true; if all those people who...
5 Ways to Make Your Home Based Business More Sustainable
Even if you don’t take any other steps, working from home is already quite a sustainable practice. You don’t burn fossil fuels commuting to work; and, in many cases, you also don’t need to maintain a separate career wardrobe. So, as a work-at-home mum, you’re already...
How to Work from Home Productively with Kids
Staying on task can be a challenge when you work from home. The children are fighting, your partner is nagging you, and the dog is making circles around the front door needing to be walked. So how do you deal with the constant interruptions when you work from home?...
The Pros, Cons and Risks of Working from Home
Thinking about doing the work at home thing? Everyone seems to be looking for that elusive work life balance these days and working from home can give you a great way to do a lot of things you wouldn't normally get to do in a regular 9 - 5. However, working from home...
Work from home job solutions for when you find your passion
Job solutions can be hard to come by for new mums; particularly if you don’t quite know where or how to start. Having a baby certainly changes life! Pre-baby, chances are you enjoyed a care-free life and you probably got a lot out of your career as well....
9 Free Online Tools You Can’t Ignore if You Work from Home
Regardless of whether you’re running your own business from home or you’re employed as a remote worker, it is likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. Apart from the basics – an email account, your browser, and all the relevant software you need to work at...
Learn How to Make Money From Home
If you’re on this website, you are probably one of those who would like to make some extra cash from home. Maybe you are even wanting to become a full time work from home mum. There are many ways to make money from home, and they may not all be that difficult or...
No Rest For The Wicked. Surviving Sickness as a Work at Home Mum
Cast your mind back to when you had no children, or before you made the decision to work from home. Remember when you fell ill? Surviving sickness was easy. You were entitled to sick pay, and you could call in sick, stumble back to bed and have a lovely time (let’s be...
Simple Strategies for Overcoming Loneliness and Isolation For Work At Home Mums
Remote Working from home is both a blessing and a curse. The pros are your personal freedom. The con is often the lack of social interaction. No more morning meetings, no chats around the water cooler, no lunches in the break room or birthday parties for co-workers....
A Day In The Life of a Procrastinator
I’ve done it again, today. Here I am, at 9pm, slugging away with the stuff I swore to myself I would get done in business hours. I tell people all the time: “Just because I work from home doesn’t mean I am available all day, free to meet for coffee or a trip to the...
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