Make your own space
If possible you should reserve a separate area for your home office. It needs to be big enough to hold all necessary equipment, as well as your day-to-day filing. It should be private enough to ensure you are free from constant interruptions and distracting noise.
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Too good to be true
The tempting advert promises that you can earn £200 a week assembling jewellery boxes from flat-pack kits delivered to your door. All you have to do is send a joining fee of £15.
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Invest in start-up
Want to ride the net wave but not willing to take the risk of quitting your job? Then the answer may be to lend your investment cash and professional skills to a friend or colleague who you believe has a plan that will take off.
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Workplace bullying
If you have been bullied at work, you are not alone. According to new research from Good Housekeeping magazine, one in four women have been the victims of workplace bullying.
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Why tax credit is a turnoff for self-employed
Britain's 3m-strong army of self-employed are falling behind in their claiming of the working families' tax credit and the disabled person's tax credit, according to the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group.
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Disentangle your tax worries on the web
Patrick Sherwen provides a user's guide to financial help now available on the internet.
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Kiss goodbye to hum-drum working
The celebrated Chinese philosopher Confucius once said: "Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life." With short-term contracts and flexible work opportunities an increasingly popular feature of today's job climate, there has never been a better time to live up to this ideal.
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Internet code to find new spies
Take the GCHQ challenge. The government is recruiting budding spies by hiding cryptic messages on its GCHQ spy centre website, challenging potential recruits to crack the code and apply for a job.
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Flee the rat race
Like so many commuters, Kevin Begley could see his life before him as he waited on the platform at Godalming station for his daily train into central London.
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Kids' party kicks off internet adventure
What began as quiet chat at a children's Christmas party has already catapulted four friends along the road to potential internet riches.
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What body language says
Interview techniques: Mike Grahame has never forgotten his first interview for a graduate job in PR. He looked the part, had done his research and was confident he could answer any questions the interviewer might throw at him. Then fate took a hand (his, unfortunately) - and it all went horribly wrong.
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Are you a colonel or a bishop?
Psychometric tests: I emerged from my first brush with a psychometric test with a very high empathy rating, destined never to be a leader, and a little less suspicious than when I had gone in. In fact, I was quietly impressed.
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Are you suited to self-employment?
A quick on-line quiz.
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How to develop a new idea
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| Archive News |
Kiss goodbye to the office forever October 09 1999
Wanted: a home for work - a des res with wires. That's the description estate agents hope to hear more and more from potential homebuyers. They'll be looking for a study and phone points rather than the second en-suite bathroom, all part of a trend toward in-built facilities allowing managers and professionals to work from home. |
How to ... earn from home
October 02 1999
What can I say? I'm sitting in my pyjamas writing this. It's already half past ten and I've only written 20 words because I found an urgent kitchen-drawer tidying job I just had to finish first - and my next-door neighbour has just started practising the
ragga set he'll be playing tonight. |
Home is where the work is for one in four October 29 1999
More than a quarter of Britain's labour force works at least part
of the time from home as the nature of the workplace undergoes
a profound and rapid transformation, new research shows.
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When you can't take your troubles to work October 09 1999
Companies are introducing psychometric tests to see if staff
have the temperament to work at home. These include looking for any family problems. |
