I work from home, but I am not alone. Today, there is a rapidly growing number of Americans who are discovering the joys and comforts of being able to work from home. In fact, many companies are offering their employees the incentive to work from home while giving them health benefits and other incentives such as gym memberships, childcare expenses, company cars and more.
Telecommuting is not for everyone, however. In certain situations, people find that they are not able to make telecommuting work to their advantage because they lack the structure and discipline that is required for such a business venture. Yes, it is true that when you work from home, it gives you more flexibility to wake up when you want to in the morning and lounge around in your night clothes all day if you want to. As long as you get the work done and are doing a quality job, no one cares what you look like because no one can see you. It s not like an office job where you have to worry about getting up at a certain time in the morning so that you ll be able to beat the morning traffic to get to the office on time. Additionally, many office jobs have a specific dress code, which means that you may or may not have to take more time out of your morning routine to pick out an outfit, do your hair, etc.
Telecommuting, in most cases, also saves employees and employers more money than it would if they had an office. How is this? If you think about it, when a business owner owns a business, they have the choice to rent out an office building space. When you rent out an office space, you have to pay a certain amount of money per month (or whatever the agreement is) to a landlord; and this amount of money doesn t even include the amount of money that you would have to pay for utilities such as water, sewer, electric, telephone, cable/Internet and whatever else your particular business would require.
When you work from home or telecommute, however, employers/business owners typically wind up saving a significantly greater amount of money because a) they can write part of their home off in their taxes and b) they are saving money in all of the overhead that they would have, otherwise, had to pay if they were renting out an office space. If employees or employers ever need to meet, they can typically do so at a local coffee shop (provided they live in the same area) or the employer and the employee can host a teleconference using video software or by just using a telephone. If a business owner needs to meet with a potential client, usually, the business owner will travel to the client. In the event that the client wants to meet up with the business owner, the business owner can rent out an office space for the day or for a few hours.
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