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Making working from home work for me AS A CAREER DESIGNER SUSAN CHOWNE KNOWS ONLY TOO WELL THAT COMFORT AND EFFICIENCY ARE FUNDAMENTAL WHEN LOOKING TO SET UP A HOME OFFICE IN YOUR APARTMENT OR TOWNHOUSE.
A specialist designer for the Canberra branch of home interiors company Creative by Design, Chowne has spent the past nine years advising hundreds of residents of strata schemes of the best ways to maximise
ensure working from home works
the space they have available to
their main job or business, meaning
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for them. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show almost a third (3.5 million) of all employed Australians regularly worked from home in
the importance of good home office design should not be overlooked. Chowne says one of the first steps you should take when defining a workable space for use for a home office is to take an inventory of the room’s existing fixtures and fittings.
