The First 30 Days Working from Home: A week-by-week plan to set up the room, protect the hours, and stay useful in a remote job without becoming the person who never logs off
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
- Softcover
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- Title
- The First 30 Days Working from Home: A week-by-week plan to set up the room, protect the hours, and stay useful in a remote job without becoming the person who never logs off
- Author
- Press, The Mute Button
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798194435609
A week-by-week plan for the first 30 days in a remote job: set up the room, protect the hours, and stay useful without becoming the person who never logs off.
You have a boss. You have a laptop. The workplace is now a spare room, a kitchen table, or a corner. This book is a field guide for that first month, not a freelance hunt, not a make-money-online pitch, and not a 90-day leadership tour.
Short paragraphs. Headers often. Cards you can copy onto a fridge. Composite houses and seats from kitchen tables, spare rooms, studios, and living-room corners. Home as a workplace that can stop.
What you actually get:
• How to use this in week one: a one-hour card before the first remote Monday
Day 0: chair, surface, door or signal, internet you have tested, promises you will not make on chat
• Days 1 to 2: camera, mute, calendar, name, and the first status the household can see
Hours that look like work: start, lunch, stop, written where people you live with can read them
A household treaty: kids, roommates, partners, dogs, deliveries, leaf blowers, scripts not hope
The commute you no longer have: put the fake extra hour back or name it
Meetings from a spare room, including what you will not attend on a phone in a car
• Chat vs the actual job, and a closed-door block for the work they hired
Isolation, lunch, and 2 p.m.: one leaving-the-chair rule
Timezones, quick pings, and the sentence you send instead of a 9 p.m. reply
• Week four: a remote 30-day note about setup, hours, and what still breaks at home
• Closeout runbook for days 31 to 60: signal, blocks, mute, treaty, stop
• Back matter: 30-day calendar, week-one card, copy-ready lines
This is not HR advice, legal advice, immigration advice, tax advice, or wage-and-hour counsel. It does not promise you will pass probation, get a raise, or get promoted. Follow the handbook, the offer letter, and the clock they published. If a page conflicts with those, they win. No time-theft tricks. No looking-busy theater. Not a manager manual and not an office-onboarding map.
Open to the week-one hour. Do that. Stop. The rest of the book is how not to spend four weeks proving you are dedicated by never logging off.
Forthcoming tools from THE MUTE BUTTON PRESS: The Stop Time Card, and The Household Treaty.
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