Edward Yarnold

I have just completed my first full calendar month of the new teleworking arrangement I have with my current employer, so feel it is a good time to write down some of my feelings and detail my experience thus far.  My arrangement is to work remotely for 3 days of my 5 day week, travelling in to the office on two consecutive days, typically Wednesday and Thursday.  This tends to break up my week very nicely in to easy chunks: Monday-Tuesday at home, Wednesday-Thursday in office, Friday at home, and then the weekend.  This in itself is one of the biggest advantages in my view; I get 3 ‘fresh starts’ per week where I can be ultra-productive.  Rarely do I now get ‘that Friday Afternoon feeling!   Following are some tips I have if you are about to start working remotely (and a lot of these points apply to freelance workers too)

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