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Artificial Intelligence Explains: Remote Work, Telecommuting, and Coworking
I asked Google Gemini and Adobe Firefly artificial intelligence (AI) to help me explain remote working, telecommuting, and coworking in words and pictures. The results are below….. Wow! Cool stuff and accurate! Adobe Firefly Prompt: Blonde woman working on a computer in her home office surrounded by a jungle of house plants Gemini Prompt: 150…
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Remote Working Rocks!
COVID forced everyone to understand the value of telecommuting, videoconferencing, and remote work. During that time……remote working / telecommuting / videoconferencing helped keep the world spinning for a few years while people worked at home. Now that the pandemic is “over”….there should no longer be ANY hesitation about continuing to remote work! After all……the benefits…
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Telecommuters / Remote Workers: Which is more valuable to you? Money or Time?
I saw an article this morning (August 10, 2021) stating in the headline that remote workers / telecommuters at Google might be working at reduced salary. I say……so what? The benefits of telecommuting / remote working…..FAR OUTSTRIP any little bit of less money you might be making versus going into the OFFICE everyday. I did…
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Remote Working After COVID 19: Guidelines
UPDATE 4/1/2021: OK, Google take note as you have banned full-time remote work to only 14 days a year and have, in my opinion, taken a step back into the dark ages. UPDATE 10/31/24: Starbucks says this: “Return to the office or get fired!” Idiots! After a bit of investigation, their “return to office” means…
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Coronavirus and Telecommuting
I’ve resisted posting about this but, it needs to be said: This is 2020, and if you are not yet telecommuting for all the benefits of productivity, work-life balance, time, money saved. You NEED to start NOW! For your safety as well as the safety of others. And when the coronavirus threat has passed….keep telecommuting…
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Remote Working Paradise
I will be spending a lot of time in the next few months evaluating remote working locations in Tracy, CA. Thought I’d add this one to the list: Our backyard paradise as a remote working location. “Retirement” is good…..I just need a bit more time to get used to it. Probably won’t take long. Here…
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Remote Working at Starbucks by Raley’s in Tracy, CA
I have been using the Starbucks by Raley’s for meetings since selling AltamontCowork. Since I am familiar with that location, I chose it to be the first of many in this new series researching remote work locations in Tracy, CA. Note: My original blog researching WiFi “hotspots” was way back in 2007. WiFi was new…
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Reviewing Remote Work Locations (in Tracy, CA)
In August 2007 (several lifetimes ago in the technology world), I went around to three locations in Tracy, CA to see how the new fangled WiFi hot spots worked, and, if they also worked with videoconferencing. The experiment went rather well. Fast forward 7.5 years to 2015 and videoconferencing is ubiquitous, there are remote workers EVERYWHERE, and…
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Working at Home vs Coworking: LIFE BALANCE
In 1990, I was one of two people responsible for writing the “Telecommuting Plan” at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Little did I know then how much “telecommuting” would change my life. In “telecommuting” I saw the perfect solution to many issues confronting society (and my own life). Chief among them is what I always strove…
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Telecommuting: Start Your Engines
See ALL my articles on Telecommuting Start Your Engines–Or Not This was also published in the Tracy Press. Just coming off a wonderfully cool week (sic) in the ForCarol.com fireworks booth, my mind is still not all here, so here is quick article showing what I think is the most important saving you gain by…
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