Get More Done: 18 Tips for Telecommuters (III)
遠程辦公提速增效的十八條秘訣（下）
文 / 克里斯蒂娜·戴馬雷
譯 / 蘇相宜
By Christina DesMarais
Remote workers weigh in on what helps them amp productivity and stay in touch with the office. 遠程上班族們在掂量：怎樣增強生產力，并與辦公室保持聯系呢？
13. Enjoy your flexibility.
13. 享受你的工作彈性。
Find your focus wavering? Take a break with a bike ride, swim, or even by quitting work for the entire day. That’s according to Patti Hill, founder and managing director of Austin, Texas-based Penman PR. “Because my work schedule can be as flexible as I need it to be, sometimes it’s important to walk away,” she says. “It’s amazing what a cool dip on a hot day can do for helping boost creative juices.”
發覺你的注意力焦點搖擺不定？休息一下，騎車，游泳，或者干脆停工一天。這是帕蒂·希爾的建議。她是得克薩斯州奧斯汀的“彭曼公關”創始人兼常務董事。她說：“我的工作日程可以根據我的需要靈活調整。有時候，轉身走開很重要。在炎熱的一天泡個涼爽的澡，爽極了，有助于激發創意。”
14. Enjoy disruptions.
14. 享受干擾。
While some remote workers eschew personal visits during the work day, others take the opposite tack. Denny Daniel, curator of New York City-based The Museum of Interesting Things, says he started his own thing to reap the benefits of being his own boss. “So when people drop by I try to live life and see them unless I am with a client or not here, of course. If it is busy then at least I see them for a moment and enjoy life a bit too. It makes me work better in the end,” he says.
雖然有的遠程工作者在工作日回避私人拜訪，另一些人卻走了相反路徑。紐約市“有趣事物博物館”館長丹尼·丹尼爾說，他創業是為了能自己當家作主。他說“所以，人們不告而來的時候，我就嘗試享受當下，和他們見面，除非我在接待客戶或者外出。日子再忙，至少我能見一會兒朋友，享受一點兒生活，那樣才能更好地工作。”
15. Stay out of the kitchen.
15. 遠離廚房。
“This is sort of the dirty little secret of telecommuters, but it’s like the freshman 15 all over again. I shudder at the thought of how many times I opened the fridge that first year. It was just constant snacking,” says Joy Martini, president of the New York City-based marketing and communications firm Martini Consulting. “So you need a kind of discipline and that’s really the clincher for the whole thing: having the discipline to get done what you need to get done; the discipline to avoid the kitchen; the discipline to kick your drop-in friends out.”
“這是遠程上班族不為人知的小秘密，像回到了普遍吃胖15磅的大一新生時代。想想我工作的第一年打開多少次冰箱門，我就不寒而栗。吃零食根本停不下來。”喬伊·馬蒂尼說。她是紐約市場營銷和通信公司“馬蒂尼咨詢”的總裁。“所以你需要紀律，那是制約全局的關鍵：完成必要工作的紀律;不進廚房的紀律;把不速之客踢出去的紀律。”
16. Buy a noise-cancelling headset with a mute button.
16. 購買帶有靜音按鈕的降噪耳機。
The last thing you want is to be in an online meeting and have the doorbell ring or police sirens blaring the background. “Perception is reality,” says New York City-based Jonathan Vlock, co-Founder of the meal planning app Cooking Planit. “You wan people to think you run a tight ship, and have all of the necessary resources at your fingertips. This is especially critica when you are an entrepreneur talking to someone at a larger organization. People can’t visualize your home but they can certainly visualize an office, and that is exactly what you want them to [see and hear].”
你一定不想在開網絡會議時，突然出現門鈴或警笛聲大作的情況。“知覺是最現實的。”紐約一款膳食計劃應用軟件 Cooking Planit 的聯合創始人喬納森·弗洛克說，“你想要人們認為你管理有方、所有資源唾手可得。當你作為企業家與一個更大機構的人談話時，這種印象尤其重要。人們想象不出你家的樣子，但他們肯定能想到一個辦公室的樣子，那正是你要傳達給他們看到和聽到的。”
17. Check in with co-workers and the boss several times a day.
17. 每天勤快與同事和老板溝通。
Several years ago I worked for a large company that let me telecommute several times a week. Because I wanted everyone in the office to know I was really working and not watching TV or out shopping, I made a point of emailing and calling co-workers and especially my boss a few times a day.
幾年前，我為一家大公司工作，公司讓我一周幾天遠程辦公。我希望辦公室每個人都知道我確實在工作，而不是在看電視或逛街購物，所以我很重視每天多次寫郵件和打電話給同事，特別是給老板。
18. Make use of free or inexpensive communications technology.
18. 利用免費或廉價的通信技術。
Today there are countless tools available for keeping in close communication with office mates. A few to try include Hipchat for group chatting, Trello or Asana for project management, Expensify for tracking expenses and submitting expense reports and Sqwiggle, which keeps your webcam turned on so your co-workers can see you at your desk all day long.
如今，無數的工具能用來和辦公室小伙伴保持密切聯系。有人試用 Hipchat 做團隊群聊，用 Trello 或 Asan做項目管理，用 Expensify 跟蹤支出和提交支出報告，用Sqwiggle保持網絡攝像頭處于開啟狀態，同事可以看見你在辦公桌前坐了一整天。
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（選自《英語世界》2017年第6期）
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