Take Your Home Office On The Road The Office Depot Way
August 28, 2008 by Yvonne Russell
August is Travel month at Home Biz Notes. How can you take your home office on the road?
Office Depot has teamed up with Jeff Zbar, a small business advocate to take his home office on the road. It has been dubbed The Home Office Highway Tour. In a fully decked out RV, Zbar will travel with his family and his home office.
Of course, it’s good publicity for Office Depot, but it does make the point about the potential for taking your home office on the road. If you have internet access, a desk space you can set up (even temporarily), you can also find facilities along the way.
When we have a computer or printer meldown and need to find other internet or printer access, we often look for other alteratives. How about for longer trips? I traveled the US and Europe in a regular car and had no trouble finding internet access. I used hotels, libraries and internet cafes.
- Have you taken your home office on the road. Any tips? We’d love to hear your experiences.
I have used libraries’ public computers while on the road. I’ve also used the public computers that some hotel lobbies have. We have a laptop now, so that makes things easier while we travel.
Hi Miranda
As internet becomes more widespread, I wonder if we’ll see more free internet access in cafes and other outlets.
I noticed some public libraries only give access to members, and others have a strict half hour allocation even for members, which is not a lot of time. Nevertheless, it’s a great free service.