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Tips for constant computer users: how to prevent eye strain
If you use a computer (or laptop, IPad or any screen) for long hours your eyes are working overtime. Here's how to make sure you are not over-straining your eyes when working on screens, so they ...
What are the benefits of working from home?
Some benefits of working from home are: 1) living very close to your work, 2) flexible hours, 3) low operating costs (if you are a business/freelancer), and 4) having a quiet place to work. However...
Handy hints for working at home
For those who are fairly new to working from home, here are a few articles with tips about how to work from home efficiently and productively, keep in touch with your work team, and stay work-lif...
Nobody’s perfect
Are you a freelancer or run your own business? If so, you probably want your work to be perfect - especially if, like me, you run a typing, editing and writing business. You probably also want to a...
Working at home with kids remote-learning at home, during COVID-19
Working from home Luckily I have an office with a door that can be closed. Luckily I have been working from home for 19 years so I know the importance of work/life balance, and how to stay focused...
Four tips for work-life balance when working at home
If you are your own boss and/or work from home, you can keep your work and life in balance by sticking to these simple rules: 1) schedule in regular time off and stick to it; 2) when at work, opera...
4 rules for staying healthy (especially for freelancers and people working at home)
There are only four things you really need to do to stay healthy, when working at home: ensure your body gets enough water, food, exercise and rest. 1. Water No matter what type of work you d...
The ‘closed door’ policy when working at home
As a result of COVID-19, many employees are now working at home, just like the many freelancers and owner/operators of sole trader businesses who worked from their own homes for many years. Peop...
Healthy bodies for constant computer-users
Whether you're a writer, editor, proofreader, scribe or typist, if you work full-time sitting in a chair in front of a computer screen and you want to live a long life, you need to stick to four im...
Using Facebook versus being used by Facebook
If you're reading this you're probably on Facebook. You may use Facebook for personal, social reasons or you may have to use it for business reasons. But are you in control of how you use Facebook...