Working Remotely: A Complete Guide to Turn You Into a Pro

I can do this in my car

I work remote and from home. Some of what they say isn't necessarily true. My employer expects me to be reachable and available during regular business hours. I can get permission to reset my hours but my manager has to approve. Work in your pajamas is possible but seriously if someone has a spontaneous Skype meeting your going to have a lot of explaining to do if your not at least in business casual. If it looks like or sounds like you just rolled out of bed your Managers suspicions are going to be raised. Also you have to produce a status report of what you accomplished and your manager is going to use items on that report to spot check with your customer if what you delivered was a quality product. So it's not necessarily a complete party. You have to produce high quality work during the time frame you should be working that roughly matches with the time your allotted to work and they have ways to double check on you. Now one nice fringe benefit is those long and boring meetings or teleconferences you can put on BOSE headphones and multi-task during that time which I like because I always look at meetings as mostly wasted time. At home you can double up and while listening to the meeting and participating........work on something else without being too noticeable to other meeting participants. So in that respect plus the lack of a commute to and from work makes work at home /remote far more productive than work from office.