8 secrets to super-productive telecommuting

Posted: April 02, 2013

If you have the opportunity to work at home, make sure you are getting the job done. Here are some tips to help you make sure you're performing to the best of your capabilities in order to crush any skeptiscism your co-workers may have about you not doing your job.

If you have the opportunity to work at home, make sure you are getting the job done. Here are some tips to help you make sure you're performing to the best of your capabilities in order to crush any skeptiscism your co-workers may have about you not doing your job.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's recent ban on telecommuting sent shockwaves across the business world. Pundits were quick to take sides, with supporters of the work-at-home option insisting that such arrangements "can make you more productive," and naysayers denouncing telecommuting as "the worst of everything."

They're both right. If you telecommute the right way, you'll save countless hours that you'd otherwise waste in commuting, You'll also enjoy a more stable life, and do a better job. But you do it wrong, working from home can wreck you. I know because I've spent the last seven years working from home—four of them, ironically, at Yahoo.

To make telecommuting work for you and your employer, follow this advice. (If you're the boss, these tips can help you manage remote workers better.)

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