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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike 9 to 5 'ers, the work at home professional's productivity is results based.  Back in cubicle-land, you were expected to hang out from 8 am to 5 or 6 pm -- no matter how you felt or what you accomplished.  The measure was how many hours you put in.  Not necessarily how effective you were.]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Nikita Devereaux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Live/Work housing offers end to commuter blues."  I recently saw this headline in the local business journal.  As you can imagine, I got a big chuckle out of it.  As a veteran virtual worker, I know better.   If you work from home 3 or more days a week, you have probably become familiar a distinctive set of challenges I call the work at home blues or WAH.  WAH or waaaaah! as I say it, refers to the unproductive work habits commonly cultivated by the isolation and detachment that remote workers experience when working from home.]]></description>
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