101 Tips for Telecommuters—Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family

3. Explain how you will make telecommuting work

Describe in detail how you will handle your:

• Major job accountabilities

• Daily tasks

• Key co-worker relationships

• Interactions previously handled as face-to-face

Provide a detailed summary of your:

• Projected daily schedule

• Measurable results and methods to report achievement of goals on a routine basis

• Alternative methods for keeping in touch and maintaining your accessibility to co-workers, managers, vendors, and clients

• Support from other departments and functions from whom you've secured commitment (e.g., information systems/computer support, telecommunications, real estate, human resources/ personnel, marketing, accounting)

• Location and layout of the home office space you will use

• Plan for handling childcare, ...