{"id":2297,"date":"2010-03-23T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/disappearing-telecommuters\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:33:49","slug":"disappearing-telecommuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/disappearing-telecommuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappearing Telecommuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saleshq.com offers up tricks for telecommuters <a href=\"http:\/\/saleshq.monster.com\/training\/articles\/3557-10-tricks-to-telecommuting-success?utm_source=nlet&amp;utm_content=shq_c1_20100323_commute\" target=\"_blank\">in this article<\/a>.\u00a0 There are some solid points like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5. Communication<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very easy to forget the outside world when you work from home. While you do get to avoid the intricacies of corporate politics, it also means that you have to be your own advocate.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure there are multiple ways for your boss and colleagues to contact you. Check your email frequently, and respond as immediately as you can. Keep your phone at hand, and make sure you call if there\u2019s an office meeting. An instant messaging service works well for open communication if something changes last minute. For more long distance projects, make use of free video conferencing tools like Skype.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This fact is mission-critical.\u00a0 One of my customers has a remote salesperson who works in the same small town as the office, but she telecommutes.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why, but that is a topic for another post.\u00a0 Anyway, one of the things she has expertly established is her lack of availability during the work day.\u00a0 What I mean is that the office can never get her on the phone during the day.\u00a0 Cell phone, home phone\u2026it doesn\u2019t matter, their calls always end up in voicemail.<\/p>\n<p>I find this fact appalling, but my customer tolerates it.\u00a0 What I believe this does is free her up to do other activities during goal time for selling.\u00a0 The office has now become accustomed to <em>not<\/em> reaching her on the phone so they think nothing of it.<\/p>\n<p>If you manage telecommuters, you <em>must<\/em> have a communication channel (cell, text, IM, etc.) that always allows access to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saleshq.com offers up tricks for telecommuters in this article.\u00a0 There are some solid points like this: 5. Communication It\u2019s very easy to forget the outside world when you work from home. While you do get to avoid the intricacies of corporate politics, it also means that you have to be your own advocate. Make sure there are multiple ways for your boss and colleagues to contact you. Check your email frequently, and respond as immediately as you can. Keep your phone at hand, and make sure you call if there\u2019s an office meeting. An instant messaging service works well for open communication if something changes last minute. For more long&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/disappearing-telecommuters\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,4,11,5,24],"tags":[1760,1550,369,1549,156,1547,1548,1551,392],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-B3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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