Just Work!

In today’s age given that how my profile works, I don’t actually need to be in a physical office! Given that this is the era of smartphones and with information available in a variety of mediums gone are the days where sit in a cube farm and keep looking at the CRT monitors!

It is even better when you don’t have a team under you as you actually do not need to managed anyone and would rather coordinate with people which anyways when you have people sitting across the globe, the point of being a in cube farm is lost!

When you work from home you are more efficient as there are less distractions at home and I would rather work listening to Mark Knopfler rather actually listen to the sound of keyboards! Right from the beginning of the day, you start work immediately & you don’t wait to get into the shower and the most brilliant part of working from home is avoiding the morning commute to work. Seriously it takes me close to an hour to get to work by road and since I work in an IT park which thinks it is NASA the time taken for me to reach my desk from the moment I park my car is atleast 15 mins!  

Also at work you have the usual breaks, the coffee break before lunch, the Lunch break and the coffee break after lunch! Plus apart from all that when you are in cubes farm you do feel the urge to go around a bit! In all you end up wasting precious time! One of the reason why Westerns work with fixed time is that they actually do not take much breaks and many even have their lunch on their desk which is possible if it is a box of salad or a sandwich but if guys wants to have “full meals” that is next to impossible!

Again another issue with actually working in an office is the usual distraction! Yes this happens being the chatter box old man who comes to your neighbour who keeps yapping around or the ultra-hot chick which makes you wonder what the hell is she even doing here! Ofcourse in some jobs it is not possible to work from home but in others where it is possible people should do it.

I hate wearing formal clothes and would rather work in my shorts! Yes in Facebook and Google it is possible but I am not working for either of them so at home I have these perks and a major thing is that forget what people say that you will save money on fuel but I would rather see it as reducing the carbon footprints by not travelling to work at all! One may argue you may take the public transportation but then I am not comfortable carrying 4 bags on a bloody stinking crowded bus! I would cycle to work but situation had made it not possible. Lack of shower and carrying a laptop with you!

Yes working at home has its own disadvantages like answering the door or answering the home phone plus if you do live with your folks they will wonder what the heck is the boy doing before a laptop the whole day!

But the benefits are huge and I would say we should work from home whenever it is possible! Yes it is fun to meet people and you know talk BS with them but when you work from home always you end up saving time and you have an extra 3 hours for yourself which you can use it for various other things!

Work from home is a good concept but then I always say offices too can be fun! I did have my share of fun offices – Irevna & Ogilvy!