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The main reason individuals fail to adapt to working remotely is they don’t recognise the neccesity of first rate organisation and robust self discipline.

I have been toiling remotely for over seven years since I first uncovered Quickbooks online an ‘on demand’ small business accounting software web application and was mesmerised by the fact that if you can perform accounting on the net then why shouldn’t it be possible to perform other important types of work away from the conventional office?

Whilst working remotely has many benefits there are numerous mistakes that people make which convert into problems that result in lower work output and reduced morale. The number one reason for low productivity in remote professionals is disturbance and it is a proven and well known fact that it can take a employee up to twenty minutes to establish their original efficiency level after experiencing a disruption.

Studies also show that men and women who are regularly experience disruptions are more likely to suffer from lower memory capacity and are prone to developing mental health trouble in later life. We live in an over communicated time and it is important that you are acquainted with the issues this causes before you decide to work remotely. Whilst working remotely you have to do everything feasible to mitigate the probability of being disturbed.

Here are things that really do work:

1, Get a routine, make sure that everybody knows it and rigidly adhere to it!

Good examples are a consistent time of day when you look at or compose and reply to mail and make or take phone calls. Before I began working remotely I used to get well over hundreds of electronic mails in 24 hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I get in excess of 5. To ’reset’ my electronic mail experience I altered my e-mail address and obsessively took precautions to shield the details being made known to anyone. I then educated every party who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it prudently. I also set up an automatic response that swiftly told anyone sending me mail at what time of day I would be reading mail and if someone must have my immediate awareness to mark it as ‘Urgent’.

2. Get rid of alerts.

Disable every function that can send you a interruption. This includes mobile and
ordinary phones and types of alerts from electronic mail such as display events, audible warnings, display changes to your inbox folder and of course facing a window. Get a door on your work room and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.

In ‘Remote Working Part 3 – ‘Tools of the trade’’ I will reveal my favourite tools and software.