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,...
How to Spot Work From Home Scams
The Internet has opened up many new employment horizons for industrious work at home mums. Unfortunately, there are many misleading “opportunities” and outright scams lurking among the genuine jobs. While this does mean you should be more cautious when...
How to Organise Your Home Office
It doesn’t matter whether your home office is just a little cluttered or buried under a mountain of chaos, you should still consider organising it to maximise your productivity. While cleaning is great, that’s only one step. If you want to organise your home office...
5 Tips On Decorating Your Home Office
Working from home can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you’re free of a tedious commute, pyjamas counts as office wear and the kids are always within sight. But anyone who’s seriously tried working from home knows how hard it can be to muster the discipline...
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....
7 Things to look for when comparing energy companies
I don’t know about you, but energy costs are our 4th biggest monthly household expense (behind the mortgage, groceries and daycare for those of you playing at home). Now, there are many ways you can save, but by far the best is making sure you are getting the best...
WAHM’s: Is Your Home Business Safe From These Common Threats?
Have you ever thought how safe your house is? When your home is also your business, it’s doubly important. It gives you even more reason to ensure it’s kept safe and protected, and there are a number of things you can do so that this is the case. Here’s how you can...
The Best Business Books for Mums (or Anyone)
Whether you’re just starting out in business or have been doing this work at home thing for a while, there is no such thing as learning too much. One of the best things you can do in business is keep finding out more information and learn from others who have...
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