By Cathy Hobbs From Tribune News Service As home and work have converged for many, it can be challenging to discern how to separate the two. How do you avoid having home feel like “the office” while still creating an environment that feels like home? Where is the work-life balance? Here are some recommendations for…

Working from home is an amazing lifestyle improvement over going into the office every day, but sometimes the office can be quite isolating. A recent Twitter conversation got me thinking about some fun places to work outside of the home when you don’t have a company office as an option. Here are some fun places…

These days, almost anyone can start a home business. The opportunities are there, and many of them do not cost a bundle to get started. The IRS is even favorable to home-business owners—and the self-employed—enabling you access to a wide range of tax deductions. Many tax deductions for a home-based business are available. The IRS…

Information workers doing their job remotely have been found to be less productive over the long term, according to a study on staff at Microsoft. Whilst the study’s authors observed a productivity increase in the short-term immediately after companies made a switch from in-office to working remotely, work hours increased over a prolonged period, which…

A UK Cabinet minister has called for the “rapid return” of civil servants to their offices, arguing it is time to end working from home as all legal COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted. In a letter to fellow ministers, Government Efficiency Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg urged them to issue a “clear message” to their departments that…

A new report has forecasted that demand for wool from Australia—which controls 90 percent of global exports—will rise as people head back into the office and pick up office suits, blazers, and ties again. Despite an increase in working from home during the CCP virus pandemic sapping wool demand, agricultural bank Rabobank predicted an upward…

Since the pandemic struck the world, working from home is more popular than ever before. Even for some people, working from home has now become their new normal. And some of us enjoy the flexibility and find it much easier to get our tasks done at home. Just Think No hour-long commutes, no complicated wardrobe,…

Australian research has begun drilling down into the question of productivity during lockdown, with the initial results perhaps not quite what all workers want to hear. It seems some white-collar employees contribute more in the office than they do at home. The productivity of new staff, in particular, drops steadily over a period of nine…

The City of London, the British capital’s financial district, will convert empty offices into new homes as part of its plan to adapt to the new reality under the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. The City of London Corporation, the district’s governing body, said it will work with the property industry to “explore new…

Over the past year, our lives have seen extensive changes that have led to many of us feeling a sense of exhaustion and burnout. The luckier among us have been able to remove ourselves from harm’s way and work from home during the pandemic. But even the fortunate ones are left to spend our days looking…