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		<title>Next assignment &#8211; How the move affects our work life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you may have noticed the silence of the Ausmerican over recent weeks&#8230;well months in fact! We are on schedule to leave Prague next week, spend some time in Washington DC and experience the Obama inauguration, work, visit family then head to Wellington, New Zealand in March. Now that our last shipment of belongings has left it&#8217;s time to reflect on how a change of assignment affects the life and work of the &#8216;trailing spouse&#8217;. In my situation, a full-time teleworker, remaining productive, contactable and efficient is important to me and relies on an infrastructure; well organized office, desktop computers, high speed internet, Skype, VoIP phone, my bookmarks, printer, scanner&#8230; the list goes on. But what happens to all of this when you change locations? We received confirmation of our Wellington assignment about 6 months before we were due to arrive there. In this period work needs to progress as usual but the work environment changes significantly. First the planning; Travel, accomodation in DC (innauguration week &#8211; Good luck!), shipments by sea and air, clear out clutter before packing, do we ship a vehicle?&#8230; wrong side of the road, no we have to sell it. How do we ship [...]]]></description>
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