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It is surprising how sorting out the delivery of a parcel to your home can interrupt your daily routine. I am talking here about the sort of parcel that needs to be signed for, so you need to be present when the delivery takes place. Just as bad can be arrangements with tradesmen who are to undertake work at your home. Luckily for me I work from home so things can be somewhat easier. I don’t need to arrange time off work or rely on a neighbour. Also, because the majority of my work from home revolves around online jobs I am able to quite easily break off what I am doing when the doorbell rings.

Last month however I had a problem. I had booked a painter and decorator to spend a week wallpapering my lounge. These arrangements are usually perfect if you work from home but these particular arrangements backfired on me due to the distraction caused. It is easy to imagine that your work from home will go ahead peacefully whilst a tradesman does his job, but it wasn’t to be this time. Although the most dedicated and affable of individuals, the decorator turned out to be extremely noisy. So much so that his presence was a constant distraction from my work from home duties.First off his efforts were accompanied by loud transistor radio broadcasts, which I put up with for a while but then had to ban. This only then precipitated whistling, singing and a near continuous need for a chat. It wasn’t long before I consented to the radio being turned back on.

All in all my efficiency must have declined as a result. I certainly seemed to spend significantly more time in my office than I usually do. The moral of the tale seems to be check out your tradesman first. Book someone who has carried out work for somebody you know, and get a noise bulletin before you engage!

A Work from home routine has loads of advantages, including a reduced, or even eliminated, requirement to use a car. However, even when you work from home the best part of the day, for example doing Online jobs, you might on some occasion or other discover the requirement to leave the office to carry out some errand or other. Journeys to the shops, picking up of parcels or mail at the post office or visits to your nearby stationery supplier for emergency stationery supply may all be required from time to time irrespective of what your work from home activities entail. And the bad news is that driving your car for any such short journeys massively increases your fuel consumption because the car doesn’t get properly warmed up.In addition, emissions from your vehiclecar are at maximum during the initial five miles so your environmental credentials are somewhat spoilt by such very short journeys.

I have worked from home for nine years now. I pop out every days for one reason or another but during the last year or so have tried riding my push bike rather than my car. It really works, my journeys are up to five miles and done in no more than 20 minutes. It is seldom that the weather is an issue,now and again I weaken and use my car but that is very rare. I fitted a saddle bag for putting items in, I can fit in all my inbound or outbound post and a reasonable amount of stationery should I run out of anything.

Naturally safety is a worry so I always don a helmet and I choose my routes carefully to avoid the bulk of the traffic. Actually I can get to my bank branch in fifteen minutes using only cycle lanes.

I find this improves my work from home business by providing true green transport and it provides me with beneficial exercise into the bargain.

Organising business meetings when you work from home can be a bit tricky as I discovered yesterday when I had a visit from a customer. They sent a four man team and the meeting went on for about four hours. When you work from home, as I do, space could be a bit limited. For instance I make use of a small office where I undertake most of my tasks, It is just big enough for one person and a computer so I am able to undertake my online jobs. But when arranging meetings the room is much too small and doesn’t have suitable seating.

Fortunately I possess a good sized dining room. It’s a room which is solely used for formal dining, when we have people over for instance. So pressing it into service it for very occasional business meetings is no problem. I wouldn’t want to work from home all the time from a dining room as I would need to pack away all my office stuff on a regular basis, however for a meeting it turned out to be great. The solitary snag was that I needed to shift my computer from my study to the dining room. Luckily, my broadband connection is wireless, so the fact that there is no telephone port in the dining room was no big deal.

In fact the whole setup looked quite professional, somewhat like a boardroom, used only for special visitors. It did however illuminate one shortcoming, my computer screen is only 17 inches. That is perfect for most work from home tasks done from my desktop. But for display in meetings it’s far too small. So before my next meeting I intend to get a bigger screen. I might get a separate additional screen, which I can keep tucked away in the dining room ready for use, or I might go for a brand new computer like an Apple Mac with a 27 inch screen built in.