One in five people work from home today. This book explores how offices are created at home so as to reflect the owner's individuality and style

AN ORGANIZED HOME OFFICE IS WITHIN YOUR GRASP. Get a grip on your home office with these handy pointers! This handbook is for entrepreneurs, telecommuters, stay-at-home parents, and home-based business owners, complete with video bonus lessons and printable reference sheets online. YOU WILL LEARN: • Your own unique fingerprint for managing your choices about time • How a simple playground game can help you sort your paper piles • The five things you should review each week that will change your family life forever • How to choose the best space for your home office and find more storage • The one question you should ask before putting anything on your calendar “As we manage our work+life fit, more of us will work and live in the same space, either on our own as an entrepreneur or remotely for someone else. The Home Office Handbook, by my go-to organizational guru Lorie Marrero, shows you how to create a home-based work environment that sets you up for personal and professional success. Must read!" Cali Williams Yost, Flexible Work Strategy Expert and Author of TWEAK IT: Make What Matter to You Happen Every Day "Even those of us who've never met a filing cabinet we liked will find tips in this handy book to keep the home office organized and make the most of our time. Lorie is practical and cheers all improvements without insisting you do anything that won't work with your life." Laura Vanderkam, Author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast and 168 Hours "Being organized is critical to growing your business fast. Lorie's book delivers specific actions you can apply immediately to get organized and stay there. This book is a must-read if you're ready to take your business to the next level." Jason Dorsey, Bestselling Author, Y-Size Your Business Certified Professional Organizer® Lorie Marrero is the bestselling author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. She is also the creator of ClutterDiet.com, an innovative program allowing anyone to get expert help at an affordable price. Her organizing books and products are sold online and in retail stores nationwide. Lorie is a spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International, and she is a sought-after expert for national media such as CNBC, Family Circle, WGN News and Woman's Day. She has also served as a spokesperson for many other companies, including Staples, Brother, and Microsoft, and she writes regularly as an organizing expert for Good Housekeeping. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her human family and 30,000 bee daughters in her backyard beehives. Learn more at clutterdiet.com

Your personal consultant for creating the perfect home work space Here is all the information you need to create a comfortable, efficient home office custom designed to meet your personal and professional needs. In this book, architect and home office design expert Neal Zimmerman shows you how to plan, design, and equip the home office that’s right for you. He helps you decide when to do the work yourself and when to hire professionals; and his numerous floor plans, photos, and examples provide countless design ideas and solutions to virtually every problem you encounter. This practical and inspiring guide provides Clear, step-by-step instructions for planning, organizing, and designing your home office space Simple tools for controlling costs and ensuring that you get the results you want Extensive coverage of workstation design Hundreds of photos, floor plans, and drawings to inspire the imagination and solve problems A broad range of design options to fit every budget Surveys of equipment, furnishings, and accessories available to help make your home office a better organized, more comfortable place to work Guidelines for those who are considering extensive renovations A section on planning for the desktop video era Charts, diagrams, planning methods, and inventory sheets to streamline the planning and design process

Discover new insights on how to setup, manage, and advise wealthy families and their family offices The Complete Family Office: A Guide for Affluent Families and the Advisors Who Serve Them, 2nd Edition represents the newest update to an essential series. This book prepares the members of wealthy families to collectively manage, sustain, and grow their wealth across multiple generations. It also assists professionals who advise families to better serve their needs. This book teaches those who advise family offices and wealthy families on: · How to setup, structure, and advise a family office · Current compliance, fiduciary and risk management practices for a family office · Forward-thinking investment management, estate planning, and private trust company considerations · Fresh insights on philanthropy, legacy, and impact investing · Best practices to managing family wealth education and preparing next generation owners · New insights on family governance, strategic planning, and succession · Methods to create a family constitution, mission, and vision for families and their family offices. The Complete Family Office Handbook provides the most comprehensive, current research, practical guidance, and approaches from leading family offices from around the globe and illustrates, by way of practical case studies and examples, how families can effectively manage their wealth for the long term.

Whether you're working at home, on the road, or in any othernontraditional work arrangement, here's what you'll need to set up,survive, and thrive in the virtual office. Alice Bredin, theleading authority on the virtual office, gives you expert adviceon: * Getting there--choosing the right business idea, negotiating fortelecommuting, and selling your family on your new workstyle * Organizing yourself--structuring your environment, setting up avirtual office in your home or car, dealing with a satellite officesituation, choosing and finding the best technology * Maintaining your virtual office--staying in the loop when you'renot in an office, keeping in touch when you're on the road,generating business, finding free publicity, adopting the habits ofhighly successful virtual office workers, maintaining contact withthe office or customers, communicating effectively via technology * Surviving--creating and maintaining work/life balance, working athome with kids, avoiding overwork, making sure your accomplishmentsare recognized, learning to take vacations, staying away from thefridge, being a good boss to yourself Whether you are contemplating this new work arrangement, activelyin transition, or firmly entrenched in this workplace revolution,this comprehensive guide is your key to success in your new workingenvironment.