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- sodade, on 05/29/2008, -0/+6I have been telecommuting for five years now. I have a 2000sq ft office that I share only with some dogs during my workday. It has mountain views and trail access and cost 1/4 the price of a suburban commuter home in Silicon Valley. I drink 5 cups of homemade tea throughout the day - much cheaper than buying a single latte at starbucks. The only reason I leave my house during the workday is to go for a walk in the woods. One of the biggest advantages is that my start to finish workday takes much less time because I only have to take a few steps to be at work and I never have to suffer through pedantic social chats at the "water cooler" with my co-workers.
- twojciac, on 05/29/2008, -0/+5I am a full-time telecommuter and have been for 7 years with the same company. Two years ago I moved half way across the country where I could be closer to one of our larger campuses. Five years of little interaction was really starting to bother me. Now I live 10 minutes away from the office, telecommute 2-3 days a week, and have the best of both worlds.
- aukxsona, on 05/29/2008, -1/+4Retarded. sheerz is right, "look at me" people can't handle working at home. I work at home. Although I would love an office at home, with sound proofing so my kids can scream there fool heads off and not interrupt me, I am not going to leave to sit out somewhere with other at home workers while I'm working. That is just...it defeats the purpose!
- LogicBomB, on 05/29/2008, -0/+3If I had a home business I'd prefer to prefer a seperate "office" addition on the house or a very small rental space in some office complex. If I had to work at home in my regular leisure space I'd be entirely too distracted to "just have one quick game" or "maybe time for a snack and see whats on for a second".
- inactive, on 05/29/2008, -0/+3You miss the real world experience.
- louiebaur, on 05/28/2008, -0/+3No way I am going to stick with working at home:-)
- brundlefly76, on 05/29/2008, -0/+2I think there are two major different wfh types - the self-employed and employee work from homes.
I have done both over 13 years, and had employees that have wfm for me, the experiences have been very different.
Being self-employed, wfh has been a negative for me. I procrastinate, I dont socialize, I dont get exercise, and work and home just becomes this depressing amalgamation with no boundaries. It affects my work AND family, other self-employeds have told me the same. Oh and I know I am suffering from making more contacts.
However, when I worked corporate, working from home *occasionally* was very strategic for me - as I would only do it when I had a large pile of well-defined work to do and needed to avoid distraction (although it still required discipline).
I know my employees are less efficient working from home almost all of the time. Developers especially are incredibly hard to manage - when they work from home it seems that there are always more 'obstacles', like bugs and unexpected 'difficulties', and 'further specification required' when they work from home vs office.
In general I know it takes far more self-discipline to work from home effectively than it does to work in an office. Of all my corporate friends, I dont know of any who dont use finger quotes when they say they are "working from home". - craighoxton, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1A friend of mine worked at a press agency where a bunch of guys clubbed together on their day off to run a virtual office where they all did freelance work.
- anshuman, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1does talk of some problems about working from home but not all of them. good okay article.
- brundlefly76, on 05/29/2008, -1/+2Well, the Jelly's are more self-employeds, not employee wfh's. A lot of us just want to be around other human beings during the day and not feel like we are Desmond pushing buttons all alone in the chamber for years on end.
- sheerz, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1'just sitting out so people can watch me write my novel'...
- cjacks9, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1"No man is an island."
Working from home is great and is a happy alternative from the workplace from time to time. I'm not sure if I could do it full-time though. Not a bad article, though I was expecting more, somehow, I think. *shrug* - ikcilabd, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1damn, i guess i'm the sucker for working in an office building in Roswell, GA. I gotta find these guys.
- putzg, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1I believe people got sick of working in isolation but, at the same time, did not want to go back to the suffocating corporate work-environment. They want to share space and ideas with those with same style of life and common interest.
- redwritinghood, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1The great thing about being a freelancer is being free. I'm free to work at home, or at Starbucks, or wherever I want to go! Sometimes I miss an office environment, but I don't EVER again want to be required to be in the office a certain amount of time. I think the idea in this article is great. Not only do they get a little social/business interaction, a little networking never hurt anybody's business, either! I've added a couple of people to my network just by sitting in Starbucks with my computer, working away.
- jkingfish, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1Hey, I organize the Jelly In roswell meet up and would love to have you out sometime! You can find our information at:
http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInRoswell
Throw your name on the list if interested and I'll get you on the mailing list. - pwoverton1, on 07/11/2009, -0/+0People like to be independent, and be there own boss.
http://www.homebusinessreviews.co.uk
Home Business - Make Money Online - Littleluk, on 05/29/2008, -0/+0I find that to be a really good idea actually, I like to do that myself by just going to starbucks and grab a coffee
- boxen, on 06/18/2009, -0/+0Coworking cooperative. This is the way intelligent work was meant to be done. Kudos
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