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• Will Work from Home: Earn the Cash--Without the Commute

  Tory Johnson, Robyn Freedman Spizman

  
  Escape the cube. Ditch the commute. It’s not just a dream anymore.
  
  Many people already spend 12 hours a day getting to work, working, getting home from work. Here’s some good news: thanks to advances in technology, acceptance of outsourcing, the trend towards corporate flextime, and other factors, working from home is easier than ever.
  
  Good Morning America’s Workplace Contributor Tory Johnson and consumer advocate Robyn Freedman Spizman tell readers exactly how to turn today’s cultural change to their advantage without giving up an income. Specific business plans will teach them how to:
  • Take their current position home
  • Find a new company whose policies will allow them to work from home
  • Reseach a product they believe in, and sell it from home
  • Start their own business, doing something they love, for a minimal initial investment
  
  With real-life stories, a step-by-step plan, resource guides, and lists of scams to avoid, this is the book that will help readers finally make the leap––and show them that they don’t have to give up their family, creativity, or peace of mind to earn a decent salary.
  
   

• The Distance Manager: A Hands On Guide to Managing Off-Site Employees and Virtual Teams

  Kimball Fisher, Mareen Fisher

  
  Global business demands and new technologies have created a virtual workplace for many companies, with employees and teams routinely collaborating from distant geographical locations on the road, from home, at client sites—even on the other side of the globe. The Distance Manager provides practical information and tools to help managers bridge the communication gaps created by geographical separation, and get peak performance from employees they rarely see. This handbook is perfect for sales managers, project team leaders, senior managers, and anyone who manages people at more than one location. Key topics include:
  • Using e-mail, teleconferencing, and videoconferencing for maximum effectiveness
  • Mastering the people skills required to manage from a distance
  • Virtual team building, and strategies for managing multiple locations
  
   

• 101 Tips for Telecommuters

  Debra A. Dinnocenzo

  
  Telecommuting can have a tremendously positive impact on an individual's quality of life, productivity, and peace of mind. But all of the advantages are contingent on being a well-informed telecommuter. Author Debra Dinnocenzo offers specific strategies for successful telecommuting that will enhance effectiveness and prosperity, both personal and professional. Easy-to-implement suggestions offer ways to transfer the knowledge and take the steps necessary to change and improve relationships, processes, resources, and systems, at work and at home. Sections address working well alone, with the family, with a team, and with external partners.
  
   

• Working from Home

  Paul Edwards

  
  Fifth Edition--Revised and Expanded. A new edition of the classic guidebook that started the "Working From Home" revolution.
  
  Paul and Sarah Edwards have completely updated their bestselling home-office guide to meet the needs of today's millions of small-business people.
  
  This comprehensive update of America's premier guide to home-based employment features complete and easy-to-follow advice on:
  -- equipping and computerizing the up-to-date home office;
  -- funding your venture--and staying out of debt;
  -- keeping your work and personal life separate;
  -- making cyberspace work for your individual business needs, and much more.
  "No home office is complete without a copy of Working From Home." --Bernadette Grey, Home Office Computing
  
  "If I had to choose only one book for my home-office reference shelf, this is the one I would choose. It's thorough, up-to-date, informed by detailed research, user-friendly, and fun to read." --Thomas E. Miller, National Work-at-Home Survey
  
  "No one knows the working-from-home field like Paul and Sarah Edwards." --Gil Gordon, Telecommuting Review
  
   

• Working Virtually: Managing People for Successful Virtual Teams and Organizations

  Trina Hoefling

  
  The move to virtual work is growing exponentially. New economy businesses have pioneered telecommuting and global work teams. While the collaborative technology is understood, what managers and team leaders lack is a clear guide to the human skills for bonding individuals into cohesive, high-performance teams across distances and differences.

  This book explains what's needed in terms of both organizational and individual development--and shows how the technological tools support and expand the options for collaboration.

  It answers such critical questions as "What makes working virtually work?" "How do we start?" "How do you develop new leaders in a virtual environment?" "What skills do virtual managers and team members need?" How do you determine how ready they are?" "Which technologies are most appropriate for your purposes?" "What's the impact on existing systems and structures?"

  Through work charts, vivid "composite" examples, definitions and actual cases, she explains how to reframe the organization without losing the culture, how to manage the group dynamics of change, and create trust by expanding emotional bandwidth. She sets out the criteria for selecting technologies to adapt and guide communication and work flow processes to a virtual environment, discusses new team roles, and how to select virtual team candidates. She covers training, communication, and management.

  As someone who began developing, and working in, virtual teams in 1984, Trina Hoefling's experience is arguably the most extensive in the field. This book will be an indispensable practical guide and reference for virtual team leaders, human resource managers, CEO's and trainers. It will also be suitable for professional certification and business courses in organizational development.

  
   

• The Virtual Office Survival Handbook: What Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs Need to Succeed in Today's Nontraditional Workplace

  Alice Bredin

  
  The leading expert on virtual office has written the first comprehensive handbook to starting, managing and thriving in a virtual office. Written for both the telecommuter and the entrepreneur, here is advice on working in all types of virtual offices, including the home office, satellite work center, time-shared workspace, and mobile office.
  
   

• Managing Telework: Strategies for Managing the Virtual Workforce (Upside)

  Jack M. Nilles

  
  In Managing Telework, Jack Nilles illustrates that telework is undeniably the corporate wave of the future on a global level. Telework, or telecommuting, a term coined originally by Nilles, means basically moving the work to the worker instead of the other way around. Although there are both risks and opportunities involved in managing a virtual workforce, the opportunities usually far outweigh the risks. As Nilles explains, the key to a successful virtual workforce is making the best use of those opportunities through proper planning and the development of an appropriate management style. Management philosophy, style, and technique constitute the foundation of this indispensable resource.
  
  Managing Telework provides crucial information on every part of the telecommuting process. Nilles first explores the issues of selecting the right type of telecommuter-candidates who are likely to be effective workers without the structured environment of the office-and how to find or make proper workplaces for an effective telecommuting program. He then goes on to discuss that central, often unspoken managerial fear of telecommuting: the threat of losing control. Nilles explains that leaders, not administrators, are the key players in successful telecommuting, and that leadership can be taught. There must also be a basis of trust between the worker and the manager, and constant, open communication.
  
  Many other pressing topics are discussed in detail, such as how to select the best technology for your specific organization, how to navigate the formal rules and regulations of telecommuting (including union rules and zoning laws), how to measure results, and how to set up a home office. Plus, there is absolutely critical advice provided on other legal, corporate, and cultural issues. This step-by-step guidebook to telework is the only management resource you'll need for the future of business.
  
  Learn how to get out of the office.
  
  A step-by-step guide to managing a successful, efficient, and happy virtual workforce.
  
  "There is no better guide to telework than Jack Nilles. His insights are of growing importance to managers and teleworkers at all levels and sectors of government, business, and industry." -William H. Dutton Professor, Annenberg School of Communication and School of Public Policy and Urban Development at the University of Southern California, and former national director of the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies(PICT)
  
  "From his twenty-five years of pioneering and perfecting telework, Jack Nilles defines the essential leadership philosophy of the successful telemanager and presents his time-tested techniques for Managing Telework. These pages are packed with top-notch expertise. I wouldn't be without it!" -David Fleming Fleming LTD
  
  "In Managing Telework, Jack Nilles describes what managers and workers need to do to create successful telework programs and explains the benefits they can derive from this way of working." -Paul Gray Professor of Information Science, Claremont Graduate University
  
  "Another milestone from the father of telecommuting; an essential reference and stimulation for the biggest change in work organization since Henry Ford." -Peter Johnston Directorate General XIII BI, Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research, European Commission
  
  "The success of any telecommuting program hinges on thoroughly training telemanagers and non-teleworkers as well as telecommuters themselves. Nilles presents his guidelines in a practical, straightforward manner."-Margaret A. Klayton-Mi, PhD Associate Professor of Business Administration, Mary Washington College
  
  "A major transformation in the nature of work is in process. Jack Nilles, for years the foremost expert and visionary leader in the field of telecommuting, has written the definitive book on the subject. This is where the future begins. Don't miss it." -Burt Nanus Author, Visionary Leadership Professor Emeritus of Management, University of Southern California
  
   

• Green Computing and Green IT Best Practices on Regulations and Industry Initiatives, Virtualization, Power Management, Materials Recycling and Telecommuting

  Jason Harris

  
  Green computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers and peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste).

  Green IT is taking on a bigger role for many reasons, this book covers all areas including an increased awareness of environmental danger; concern about power bills; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a sense that corporations should embrace social responsibility.

  But IT is still responsible for 2% of all carbon releases, and it's coming from many sources. Fast memory for instance is getting to be a surprisingly high energy consuming item.

  This is a great book as it highlights Green IT in a clear and compelling way and shows how, really, the business case for sustainability has been largely proven. This is a quality, believable business book that will help especially managerial staff understand this topic in biz terms most known to them.

  
   

• The Home Office Solution : How to Balance Your Professional and Personal Lives While Working at Home

  Alice Bredin

  
  Practical advice and proven techniques to succeed and prosper in your home office
  
  If you're one of the millions of people currently working out of your home, you know that, along with independence and flexibility, there are challenges. Home office workers face isolation, stress, burnout, time management issues, family and relationship conflicts, and procrastination, among other concerns. Now, America's leading virtual office authority gives you the tools and techniques you need to thrive. Keep yourself motivated-and productive-as you learn to:
  * Manage time and workload-avoid scheduling conflicts, control interruptions and distractions, overcome overwork
  * Balance work and home life-prioritize responsibilities while constructing boundaries between home and office, deal with spouses and children
  * Cope with emotional fallout-manage stress and burnout; overcome depression, isolation, and rejection
  * Maintain good health-establish routines of regular sleep, nutrition, and exercise; organize a safe work environment
  
  Become your own best boss!
  
   

• Momprenuers (R) Online: Using the Internet for Work at Home Success

  Patricia Cobe, Ellen H. Parlapiano

  
  According to the National Foundation of Women Business Owners, six in ten women business owners use the Internet with frequency. In this up-to-the-minute book, Patricia Cobe and Ellen H. Parlapiano offer these entrepreneurial women advice on how to get an at-home Web business up and running, take an existing business online, or find a company that allows telecommuting. With the sound and timely advice in Mompreneurs Online, women can build an Internet-based, kid-friendly business in the comfort (or chaos) of their very own homes.
  
  * Target the hottest, family-friendly Web businesses
  * Maximize online money-making potential with innovative marketing strategies
  * Build a dynamic website-one that will keep visitors coming back again and again
  * Network with other "mompreneurs" online
  
   

• The Virtual Workplace

  Magid Igbaria

  
  "The Virtual Workplace provides a source of ideas on the adoption of the leading-edge telecommunication and information technologies related to the virtual workplace, and the impact of these technologies on individuals, groups, organizations, societies, and nations."--BOOK JACKET.
  
   

• Work From Home Handbook: Flex Your Time, Improve Your Life (USA TODAY/Nolo Series)

  Diana Fitzpatrick, Stephen Fishman

  
  Make going to the office optional!
  
  

  Haven't you ever wished that you didn't have to waste hours in rush-hour traffic on your commute to the office? Had more time with your kids? Or simply had the luxury to go to work in your pajamas?
  
  

  Co-produced with USA TODAY, The Work From Home Handbook is an excellent resource for anyone who dreams of a work-from-home career. You can find the option that best suits your personal, financial and professional goals through the book's systematic, step-by-step advice.
  
  

  This book shows you how to:
  
  

• Find out where and how you work best
  
• Prepare a great proposal for your current employer
  
• Demonstrate productivity in your home office
  
  If your current employer is inflexible, this book also covers finding a new "beyond the office" job, or becoming an independent contractor.

  
  
  

  Filled with solid tips, real-life examples, practical advice and - best of all - inspiration, The Work From Home Handbook can help you transform and achieve a healthy balance in your life and career.
  
  Seventy-nine of Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" last year allowed - even encouraged - employees to work from home at least 20 percent of the time. More than two thirds of all American companies offered some telework options in 2005. And the country's largest employer - the U.S. government - encourages employees to work from home "to the maximum extent possible." Don't be left behind. Find out how you can chose this career option for yourself.