Before you commit to your home office space, ask yourself these
20 questions:
1. Do you want clients or
visitors traipsing through your home to get to your office?
2. Do you want your family
trooping through--or even past--your office?
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3. Are you doing mostly desk
work?
4. Do you need space to
sort, store and ship stuff?
5. Are you producing and
assembling a product?
6. Do you want--or need--to
keep your work-in-progress on-hand and available for tweaking at a
moment's notice?
7. Does noise or activity
easily distract you?
8. How much and what kind of
sound can you tolerate while working?
9. Do you work more
efficiently when you can see and touch reference materials?
10. Do you wilt in the
absence of natural light?
11. Do you need a desktop
computer or would a notebook do just as well?
12. Are you left- or
right-handed?
13. Do you need a separate
entrance to maintain clients' privacy or your own sanity?
14. Is your work life
completely separate from or fairly integrated with the rest of your
life?
15. Do you need help
maintaining healthy boundaries around your work?
16. Is your work something
in which your family can participate?
17. Will you be adding more
equipment in the near future?
18. Does listening to music
boost your creativity?
19. Do you need space to
hold meetings?
20. Does your town or city
have special zoning requirements for homebased businesses?
Meredith Gould has worked from a home office for more than a
decade. Additional tips for working happily and healthily at home
can be found in her book, Working at Home: Making It Work for
You.
Originally published in the October 2000 issue of HomeOfficeMag.com
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