Quickbooks online edition

The most cited reason people fail to adapt to operating remotely is they fail to realise the essential requirement of high-quality organisation and enduring self discipline.

I have been operating remotely for almost a decade since I first unearthed Quickbooks online an 'on demand' small business accounting software web application and was blown away by the fact that if you can do accounting on the net then why shouldn’t it be practical to perform other important types of work at a distance?

Whilst working remotely has significant advantages there are numerous mistakes that people make which evolve into problems that result in lower productivity and reduced morale. The key reason for reductions in productivity in remote workers is disruption and it is a established and well publicised fact that it can take a worker up to 20 mins to establish their original productivity level after experiencing an interruption.

Research also shows that men and women who are consistently subjected to distractions are more likely to be susceptible to reduced memory power and are prone to developing mental health issues in old age. We live in an over communicated era and it is critical that you recognise the issues this causes before you start working remotely. When operating remotely you have to do everything possible to mitigate the threat of being disrupted.

Here are the essentials:

1, Get a habit, communicate it to absolutely everyone and obsessively maintain it!

Good examples are a specific time of day when you look at or compose and reply to e-mail and make or take telephone calls. Before I began working remotely I used to receive in the region of a couple of hundred electronic mails every 24 hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I receive in excess of four. To ‘restart’ my e-mail experience I altered my e-mail address and vigorously took steps to shield the details being made known to anyone. I then ‘trained’ every person who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it wisely and sparingly. I also created an automatic response that swiftly told anyone sending me mail at what time of day I would be reading mail and if an e-mail required my immediate consideration to mark it as ‘Urgent’.

2. Get rid of alerts.

Disable absolutely everything that can send you a visual or audible alert. This includes mobile and
conventional phones and forms of alerts from e-mail such as visual alerts, warning sounds, display changes to your inbox list and of course facing a window. Get a door on your office and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.

In 'Remote Working Part 3 – Best online software' I will reveal my favourite tools and software.