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All the practical advice you need to start up a business or work from home.
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Start Working From Home
Shirley Borrett
- How to prepare your home office
- How to convince your boss to let you work from home
- How to start a home based business
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Published: 2011
File Size: 2 MB
Want to start working from home but don't know what practical and legal matters you need to consider?
Whether you want to set up a business from home or you want to work from home as an employee, our Start Working from Home Kit can help you get started.
This Working from Home Kit explains what is involved if you want to start working from home including how to prepare your home, how to comply with health and safety regulations and the legal obligations involved when you start working from home, from getting insurance to paying council tax and business rates.
The Working from Home Kit also addresses the personal issues of starting to work from home, including how to motivate yourself and find out if you're suitable for working from home, the skills you need to work from home and how to structure your days.
Plus the Guidance Manual is packed with expert advice and top tips on how you can find job opportunities so you can start working from home, including:
- How to convert your existing job into a home-based job - how to to present a good case to your boss that you want to start working from home, how to ask for flexible working or to increase or reduce your work hours.
- How to find a job where you can work from home - how to research the job market, make job applications, go for interviews and review your employment contract.
- How to become self-employed and start your own business - how to set your prices, start a website, make sales and get publicity for your new business.
Contents of this Working from Home Kit include:
- 48-page Guidance Manual packed with expert advice
- Form for Making Business Case for Flexible Working
- Skills Record - to help you identify the skills you have
- Health and Safety Checklist
Plus the Start Working from Home Kit provides you with access to the following downloads:
- Interactive Homeworking Suitability Questionnaire
- Job Search Record
- Press Release Template
- Alternative Work Places
- Useful Web Links
Get the confidence you need to start working from home with our Working from Home Kit today!
About the Author
This Working from Home Kit has been written by Shirley Borrett, MBA, Development Director of the Telework Association and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Related Products:
- Working From Home Pocket Guide
- Self-Employment Kit
- Running Your Own Business Made Easy
- Starting Up and Running a B&B
Start Working From Home Kit Guidance Manual Contents:
Introduction
- Who is working from home?
- What kind of home-based work is possible?
- Are you suitable for working at home?
Preparing to work at home
- Getting the equipment you need to work from home
- Furniture
- Storage
- Technology
- Health and safety
- Lighting
- Heating
- Wiring
- Ergonomics
- Legal considerations
- Mortgage
- Landlord
- Covenants
- Planning and building regulations
- Insurance
- Council Tax and Business Rates
- Capital Gains Tax
- Business regulations
- Visitors
Preparing yourself to work from home
- Understand your own needs
- Structure your days
- Involve those around you
- Keep motivated
- Plan ahead
- Manage your time
- Deal with isolation
- Recognise and celebrate achievements
- Take a break
Deciding what work you want to do at home
- Identify your skills
- How many hours you want to work from home
- How much of your work you want to do at home
- Types of home-based jobs you can do
Find genuine work opportunities from home
- Convert your existing job
- The change you want to make
- Impact on colleagues
- Impact on the organisation
- Benefits
Looking for a work from home job
- Research the job market
- Identify suitable jobs
- Make job applications
- Interviews
- Keep searching
- The employment contract
Becoming self-employed
- Research
- Join a business network
- Decide what to charge
- Set up an email address and website
- Business cards and brochures
- Business support
- Get publicity
- Make the sales
- Keep your customers
Alternative meeting and working places
- Meeting places
- Working places
- Alternatives to working from home
Loose-leaf paper forms included:
- Form for Making Business Case for Flexible Working
- Health and Safety Checklist
- Skills Record
Working from home forms available to download:
- Form for Making Business Case for Flexible Working
- Health and Safety Checklist
- Skills Record
- Job Search Record
- Press Release template
- Useful web links
- Alternative work places
- Homeworking Suitability Questionnaire with guidance notes
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- Keep up to date with the latest law changes
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