It is a job type that has often been the subject of negative
stigmas. “Work from home” types have been cast in the past as lazy and
ineffective. But now that the internet has allowed for a “virtual presence” in
an office to be nearly as good as the real thing, those stigmas are
disappearing.
Now, work from home jobs are becoming more commonplace. You may
one day be offered one! So what are some of the benefits that come with the
role? Here are some obvious ones, and ones you may not have considered before:
Dictate your own schedule
The number one benefit of working from home is having more
control over your daily routine. Now, there is a chance that your company will
dictate certain aspects, such as times you need to be “active”, etc., but the
fine details are down to you. As you have no commute, you may decide to stay in
bed a little longer, making you more rested than you may otherwise have been.
You may have enough autonomy to dictate what tasks you
undertake at different points of the day too. Say you are a morning person -
you can choose to tackle the harder tasks then, moving on to the more tedious
work in the afternoon. If you have no set schedule at all, you can completely
customise your day, breaking it up into blocks. But you have to make sure you
stick to some kind of schedule, as you may start lapsing into laziness if you
don’t incorporate some kind of structure.
Closer to Home
If you do successfully incorporate and stick to a schedule, you
will hopefully have set aside a “work area”. This doesn’t have to be an office,
but it should be somewhere in the house dedicated entirely to work. It should
be separate from everything else, otherwise you are again leaving yourself
opportunities to lax into laziness.
Doing so will mean when you finish work, you can enjoy being at
home properly. If you blur the lines between work and home life, you won’t be
able to enjoy that “going home” feeling. It’s just as potent if you work at
home as it is if you work in an office! It may be even better, as there is no
commute! This also mean, in an emergency, you are already home, not miles
away.IT may never come into play, but having the reassurance is great.
Away from the Office
There are a tonne of little things you get to avoid if you
choose to work from home. Chief among which, you’ll have
some distance between you and “office politics”. We’ve all seen petty arguments
spiral out of control. With the distance, you should be kept away from these
things (though they will still affect you in some ways if you are in email
correspondence constantly).
The “distance” also gives you something of an outside
perspective on matters. If you have worked on something for weeks, you develop
something of a skewed perspective on it. You may become blind to some of it’s
shortcomings. Since you are now divorced from some matters, you can bring a
less bias viewpoint to a project your colleagues have been working on. This can
be a great thing for both parties, and could lead to unforeseen improvements.
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And finally, there is the elephant in the room, that people may
not want to admit to looking forward to. Offices are filled with a wide variety
of personality types, some of which you are bound to get along with less than
others. Working from home means you limit your contact time with these people.
In short - you don’t have to be around people you don’t like all the time!
Courtesy : Lily
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