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Work From Home? Can You Work From the Road?
By Jeff Zbar | July 14, 2008
Every year, my family takes a winter road trip to northern Ontario, and a summer trip to the Jersey Shore. While I work from home, I always take my home office on the road.
Can you?
Millions of Americans work 50 weeks a year to earn their coveted two weeks off. Few take those two consecutively for fear of, what…? Falling out of sync with the office? Losing touch with work, peers, clients and the flow of the office? Failure?
The problem with the modern American worker is that “work” is a thing to be done, a task, a chore — most often done from a single place (whether that means the home office, the corporate office or some other more “formal” place of business). They never consider that work is not about a place. It’s about any place.
With such tools as a laptop and a wireless broadband Internet service, work frequently can be done from any place at all — a hotel, poolside, the family sedan, or a recreational vehicle driving down the highway. What I’ve discovered with Home Office Highway is that with those tools — and such devices as the portable printer, the wireless phone with Navigator GPS (or even Gas Finder, which locates cheap fuel based on your current location), and understanding clients and family, almost anyone can work from home.
According to one study, almost four in five executives will take work on family vacations. There’s nothing wrong with that — as long as the completion of work doesn’t compete with pleasure. So striking that balance is vital to a successful family “workation.”
Even if it means blending the two as one…
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