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Here's how to shoehorn an entire workstation into a small space.

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earing a bathrobe, a bit of last night's dinner and three day's growth, I was a telecommuting pioneer.

It was 1990, and I was one of only 3.4 million people in the entire country who worked for a corporation from home, connected to my boss up the highway by a poky modem and the occasional harassing telephone call.

When I first set up my office as a newspaper reporter in a small town, I had no clue how tricky it is to establish a work space. My desk was a barely usable drafting table. My chair was designed for church picnics. As I accumulated files I piled them in milk crates. I stacked my newspapers

in the corners. I'm normally a neat person, but eventually that room looked like home to one of the mound-building tribes of Ohio.

Nowadays the number of people telecommuting is estimated

by Christopher Schwarz

Comments or questions? Contact Chris at 513-531-2690 ext. 1407 or chris.schwarz@fwpubs.com.

Photos by Al Parrish

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