Protecting Your Privacy When Running A Work From Home Business

Operating a home-based business does not mean that
your life is an open book for the world to read.
You will have to set specific boundaries between
your work life and your private life in order to
insure that your family is not interrupted by your
work. You will need to establish specific working
hours for your work from home business and at the
end of the day, leave the business behind. If you
let your home-based business consume every waking
moment of the day, you will quickly burn out as
well as causing problems in your family’s life.

If you can afford at the start of your business,
have a separate phone line installed that is
strictly for your work from home business. Use an
answering machine for after hours calls and unless
a client or customer leaves a message that it is
an emergency, call them back the next business
day. If possible, do not give out your home
telephone number as a contact number. You never
know if little Johnny or Susie will answer the
phone leaving a bad impression on a potential
customer.

There are many services that will cross boundaries
between your work life and your private life and
understanding where they meet will help you keep
your sanity when you work from home. When you
first start the business, it may be easy for your
spouse to ask you to get things done around the
house while they are at work. You will need to
remind them gently that you will be working and
no, you don’t have time to finish the dishes, or
throw a load of laundry in the washing machine and
you definitely don’t have time to paint the
bathroom.

Unless the work from home business requires you to
meet with clients and there is no way around it,
do not entertain business associates at your home.
In fact, clients probably should not even have
your home address. Using email and the telephone
for client contact is in the best interest for
privacy, as you don’t want an irate customer
banging on your door while you eat supper with
your family. A post office box is not overly
expensive and can be used for most shipping and
helps protect your family’s privacy.

Remember, this is your business and you need to
keep foremost in your mind that your spouse and
children are not employees. You may be working out
of a home office, but it is still your family’s
home and you need to make sure you have definite
boundaries established. Just as you do not want
them crossing into your office space while you are
working, you need to show the same respect to your
family by not allowing work to cross into their
private space.

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