Is Working From Home
Right For You?
Several decades ago the “classified advertisement”
section of newspapers contained advertisements
attempting to recruit people to work from home, part
time, stuffing envelopes to earn large sums of money.
Articles also appeared warning people that these jobs
really did not exist, and if they did exist they would not
pay much money. Advertisements to work from home
were often misleading.
Within the past few decades this has all changed. With
the advent of the high speed internet, rising real estate
costs, globalization, expense reduction initiatives,
initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint and
competition to hire talented professionals, businesses
started to promote working from home and home
became a legitimate workplace. Today, working from
home is on trend!
Working from home does have different meanings to
different people. For example to some people working
from home means:
An opportunity to occasionally stay home due to illness,
family illness, having a service or delivery at home, car
repairs, medical or parent teacher visits scheduled
during the work day.
Scheduling one or two days a week to work without the
usual interruptions at work for either personal
convenience or to work on major projects without the
usual interruptions at an office.
Having no assigned office space other than one’s home.
Employers may have an assigned drop in space with a
few desks, telephone and internet connections for all of
their work at home employees to share. There are also
some independent business p