Out of Office: How to Work from Home, Telecommute, or Workshift Successfully

Introduction

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

—General Eric Shinseki

With the changing nature of office work as we understand it, I felt it was time to create a book for those who are considering or have already made the move to a nontraditional work space. This might be a coffee shop, a co-working space, or even the beach. I use the umbrella term “Out of Office” throughout the book to encompass these nontraditional spaces and the process of working in them.

In this book, I will be using several terms that apply to the different forms of Out of Office working. I define them in the following way:

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