IMPROVING
health and safety of your clients. By making safety a
priority, you will ensure that work-related accidents
don’t occur on your premises. If you intend to
practice work with the public from your home, you
may be subject to work hour restrictions or layout
restrictions in terms of the space used to conduct
the business.
TIP
Make sure your current building and
contents cover is adequate to cover you
working from home and enquire whether
you need additional policies to cover
clients/ customers.
Workshop space
If your job is more manual, along the lines of logistics,
handicrafts or painting and framing, you may need
to consider building an extension onto your property.
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The size of the extension will depend very much on
your current requirements and business plans for the
future. If your needs are short term, then you might
want to convert a basement, garage or outbuilding. If
you are considering building an extension onto your
property or altering your property to meet your work
needs, you may require planning permission.
Your tech needs
Your technology needs will vary according to
what work you are doing from home. The basics
will entail a router, a broadband line and Internet
package. With so many great deals on right now,
you can pick up fast Internet for relatively cheap, try
axxess or MWEB. If you are working on multiple
computers a wormhole switch might make life a lot
easier, allowing simple plug & play file swapping
and content sharing across multiple platforms. Your
other needs will be a printer, a scanner and a phone,
and then your home office is complete.
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