Does working from your home and sleeping on your job increase productivity?

Like every other morning, your alarm clock reminds you that you have to leave your warm bed and head off to work. You take a look at the street, it’s cold, it’s foggy, it’s raining… A journey to the office isn’t an easy task: nervous drivers, crowded city buses. Grimed faces of your co-workers are the first thing you will see when you enter your office. Or even worse, it will be the face of a friendly co-worker, the office clown who will spend half an hour telling you all about his weekend.

How many times have you wondered how nice it would be if someone could make your wish come true and let you work from you quiet and warm room? Is it just a part of your imagination or are you a step away from making your wish a reality? Development of information technology is making the dream of working from home more and more real.

Work from Home - living room comfort

Development of mobile hardware, innovative software, development of online services, etc. can have influence on simplifying and enabling working from your home. All you really need is a computer and Internet connection, and you can do all of you work from your home office. There are many benefits of working from your home, besides simply having a few more hours to sleep before you start working.

You can set your alarm clock to any time you want, or not even set it at all. There is no mental tension of working from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. You avoid stress you would usually go through on the way to work, and you don’t have any costs of transportation. You can start working after you have breakfast, drink your coffee and collect enough energy and concentration to do your job right. You can take a break whenever suits you the best. You are working in a familiar, pleasant environment. Whenever you feel like you can’t concentrate, you can get up, go to another room, relax, and come back when you feel ready to continue your work. You can work when you feel the most productive, even if it is at 2 a.m. Using modern online software (project and document management systems) you can still be connected with your co-workers, you can use any document that you need, keep up the workflow that is important to your company.

There is no one standing behind your back, watching your every move, so you can use your time to read the newspapers, check forums you are interested in, talk to some people from your line of work, because each seemingly unimportant thing can give you an excellent idea that you could later transform into a creative business solution. If you are one of the people who lake to lie down and relax, no one can blame you for it. Or if you need fresh air, and a walk, or some type of physical activity. It is easier to look at​ business problems from a different point of view if you step back a little in order to gain some other perspective.

Yet, you have to be aware that you must show good results, but you still have the luxury of not having   anyone who can check how you accomplish these results. It means you will have to prevent your inmates from interrupting you while you work, switch off your TV, phones, “gtalk”, “skype” and other appliances that could disturb you. You must be aware of your deadlines and respect them; you must set your priorities, and make a schedule. If you are working, then work for real, because even working from home is a job which implies effort and brings you profit.

Work from Home - you don’t worry about your kids, you work

Even though there are many positive sides to working from your home, there is also much criticism of this way of working. It usually refers to differences between industries, because not each of them allows working from home. Some criticism is pointed at how different people can be, since some people can’t motivate themselves for work. However, we can’t deny the results of a research which show how this kind of work increases productivity from 10 to 40 percent, reduces expenses of working space, as well as costs of transportation, increases the number of right decisions for 50 percent and it increases satisfaction with work, flexibility and synchronizing your personal life with you business life.

It is exactly why the information that 68 percent of employers forbid this way of working is discouraging. Many employers don’t even see this way of working as a potential possibility for hiring employees. Especially today, in the age of modern business, when each innovation is a way of achieving advantage in comparison to competition and, by using development of modern information technologies, a way of strengthening your position in instable market conditions.

But still, do all jobs provide the luxury of working from home?

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