Advantages of Working at Home


by ShonChristopher Cary - Date: 2010-04-15 - Word Count: 481 Share This!

What good is working at home? Your first question might be, when you consider being able to work in your pajamas all day, what's not good about it? Fewer than one percent of people who start teleworking want to go back to the office, unless there are mitigating financial considerations.

Consider these specific advantages to working at home: You can get up whatever time you'd like, sit in an easy chair if you so choose, take a nap after a couple hours, email your day's output to the boss, then go for a walk. You don't have to buy anyone a Secret Santa present and you don't have to listen to the company loudmouth talk about his latest fishing trip. You can avoid the flu viruses that circulate the office each winter. On a more serious note, working at home is ideal for those who have to care for an aging parent or a child with health problems. Or maybe you just want more quality time with your dog during the day, or you want to work with your kitten on your lap. And while it's hard to ascertain specific numbers on this, workplace experts believe that a significant portion of telecommuters do their work each day without any clothes on.

Best of all, when you work at home there's no commute. The average commute to work is over a half hour, after all, and a forty-minute ride to the office adds up to eight forty-hour weeks per year, or eight more weeks of work. Without a commute you'll save on gas and on your car's wear and tear. You'll avoid a large amount of stress and the effects it can have on your body when you avoid traffic and gridlock. On the macro level, a society that drastically reduces its number of daily commuters also drastically reduces its number of highway accidents and fatalities each year. 2009, in fact, saw the lowest level of deaths on the American highways in decades, a statistic partly attributed to the recent rise in teleworkers. Fewer cars on the road also means less national dependence on foreign oil and a reduction in carbon emissions.

It helps your employer when you work at home, too. Providing you an office can cost your company upwards of ten-thousand dollars annually-and that doesn't take into account the costs of paper and other office supplies. And while there's not always a direct correlation, it's often true that the more telecommuters a company employs the fewer middle managers it has to hire.

Today it's easier than it's ever been to find an at-home job that will pay you a full income, and your company might even allow you to try telecommuting with the option of returning to the office if you don't like it. And if you do give telecommuting a try, chances are good you'll never want to sit at your cubicle again.


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