The It’s a Smart Decision! Online Community is expressly for geographically dispersed teams, telecommuters, work at home entreprenuers — or soloprenuers, as I call them — and other “virtuals” who want to share all the ways you find balance and stave off insanity in your home office. It’s just getting started, but you can bet people like you will make it well worth the two minutes it might take you to sign up.
There is a great tool available called LetterMeLater which allows you to queue e-mail messages to be sent for a future date. It’s great for when a client or colleague asks me to send them an e-mail in a week on a task he or she needs to complete. Rather than writing a to-do to send the email on the appropriate date and time, get the to-do done now by queuing the message in LetterMeLater.
Simply Virtual is flooded with resumes from people all across the country who want flexibility and desire to make their own rules. It makes the job that much harder, to wade through the many well-intentioned, corporate trained folks who rarely consider how they might feel after cooking under the pressure of isolation, results focused productivity standards and stress that accompanies a typical work at home role.