In Pictures: 10 tools for more productive telecommuting
Keep in touch with co-workers, track your time, and block distractions with these apps and services.
Keep in touch with co-workers, track your time, and block distractions with these apps and services.
With the right boss and the right broadband, these tech workers relocated to paradise destinations
Rick Boyd used to spend US$500 (NZ$648) a month on petrol and road tolls commuting between his home and office in New York state. Now Boyd doesn't commute any more because his company, Chorus, which provides clinical and management software for community health centres, has gone virtual.
Extreme telecommuting is possible because of the internet and electronic mobile devices, software and services. Thanks to the revolution in digital communication, you can for the first time in human history work on the other side of the world as if you're on the other side of the office.
Companies that promote a healthy work-life balance generally have corporate-wide policies and guidelines that allow individual employees and their managers to set up flexible work arrangements.
Coworking promises to improve productivity while improving work-life balance. Whether you're an enterprise with remote employees who want a professional work environment or a start-up firm too small for your own office, you can benefit from coworking.