Noisy neighbours. Distracting kids. The sense of isolation. The blurring line between work and home. For all the great things there are about working remotely - no commuting, more time with family, better lunches, to name but a few - it’s fair to say that it has a few downsides as well.
Whether you’ve always wanted to work from home or you’ve been forced to work remotely by circumstances beyond your control, navigating the ups and downs of ‘WFH’ life can be tricky, especially in the beginning. ‘Cabin Fever’ to the rescue!
This book is divided into two parts, each designed to get you clued up on how to make remote working work for you. The first concentrates on cabin fever and how it can affect your mental health, productivity and personal life. The second takes you through chapter after chapter of valuable practical tips to help you overcome the challenges of remote working.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognise and banish the factors that negatively affect your mental health and productivity
- Improve your work/life balance
- Create a positive, distraction-free working environment
- Manage the loneliness and isolation of remote work
- Get back to full productivity and a healthy mental state
All the ideas you’ll meet in this book are carefully researched and based on scientific data. By the time you’ve finished reading it, you’ll know everything you need to know about how to handle the stress of remote working and find your own pace - and you’ll have created a personalised working plan to help you start as you mean to go on.
Anyone who’s been there and done it will tell you that managing a team remotely brings a different set of challenges to managing a team in an office. From creating a sense of structure to boosting team morale, keeping your team working productively when none of you are in the same room can be tricky.
That’s where author Hari Singh can help. Whether you’re used to managing your team remotely or you’ve been forced into it by circumstances beyond your control, this book will help you not just survive, but thrive.
Each of the chapters in this book addresses a different aspect of managing your team remotely, teaching you the practical steps and techniques needed to boost your own productivity as well as that of your team.
You’ll discover insider secrets including how to:
- Build a high-performance remote team
- Create a distraction-free work space
- Develop high levels of productivity
- Stay healthy and relaxed while working remotely
- Give your team the tools they need to function even better from home than they do in the office
Author Hari Singh is a web development specialist contractor. Over the course of his 16-year career, he’s seen the transition from on-site to remote working and witnessed remote senior managers making every mistake in the book. Using the performance optimisation techniques Singh describes in this book, these same managers were able to enjoy an explosion in their productivity, getting done in four or six hours what used to take eight. Now you too can enjoy a seamless transition to remote management and take your productivity to the next level, with no stress and no fuss.
How would you like to work so productively from home that what used to take you 8 hours in an office could take you just 4 hours remotely?
With this book, you’ll discover the secrets to not just getting things done when you’re working from home, but getting them done FAST.
Whether you’ve always wanted to work remotely or you’ve been forced into it by events beyond your control, this book will transform you into a powerhouse of productivity. Whatever your reason for remote working and wherever you want to work, you’ll free up so much time, you won’t know what to do with it.
If you’ve been used to working in an office, working remotely can take some getting used to - particularly with a TV, snacks and the endless other distractions of home. In this book, author Hari Singh guides you through the practical steps needed to set up your new working environment so that you can focus and deliver your best - without feeling like you’re all alone.
Among other things, you’ll learn the secrets of how to:
- Transition from hardcore office worker to hardcore remote worker
- Boost your productivity so nobody even realises you’re not in an office
- Get stronger, both mentally and physically
- Give yourself more free time than you know what to do with
- Leave your colleagues wondering how you do it!
Author Hari Singh has been a web development specialist contractor for 16 years, and he’s witnessed the transition from on-site to remote working first hand. He’s made all the mistakes in the book, but he’s lived to tell the tale. Now he’s going to show you how to avoid the same pitfalls, helping you transition seamlessly to remote working with no stress and no fuss.
