Posted by Mike on March 13, 2008
I started a work from home trial. Here is the contact for my team to help my working remotely be a success.
I will be working from home on Fridays during March and April. This is a trial to see how it works.
Here is some information to help us work together when I am working remotely.
- Call is you need anything.
- 999-999-9991 cell
- 999-999-9992 home
- Meetings: schedule me, I will join by phone.
- Check my work from home wiki to see what I am working on.
- Planned schedule: 6 AM to 2:30 PM.
What do you think? It’s short and to the point.
Posted by Mike on March 5, 2008
The more I think about it and experience it, setup time is something to minimize. Any complicated task requires setup time to get you into the task. Any time that is interrupted, you have to go through some level of setup again.
One key to getting work done is to arrange blocks of uninterrupted time. This allows you to complete setup and focus on productive work.
This brings up several questions:
- Why don’t we block out time to get work done?
- What criteria do you use to decide when to have a meeting and who to invite? Does respecting work time play into it?
- Can’t we say no to a meeting in order to get work done?
Multi-tasking works against productivity too. You may look busy, but you probably aren’t accomplishing much.