Your biggest pros and cons of working from home

[ggmopa]

I have an entire workstation kitted out in my bedroom I use as a side hustle, maybe might start working from home full time. I live with my parents right now. My girlfriend moved in too and there’s always some guests coming and going.

I suppose pros would be:
- No commuting. Seriously that’s up to 3+ plus hours a day for some people gone.
- no additional travelling or business costs - rent, rates, bills etc
- no need to even get dressed on weekend. I cam literally roll out of bed and start work in my boxers of I wanted.

Cons
- Family and froends tend not to take your work as seriously. Just spent a week entertaining my cousin, coming and going in to my room as he pleased whey gf was at work. Just telling me to stop browsing aimlessly and get out of the house.
- Related to the above, you get called from everything to take your gran to the doctors to going to the shop for bread and milk. My dad insisted I come down and help him carry the groceries in to house just as I was in the middle of doing something inportant. Constant jibba jabba from girlfriend when i’m trying to concentrate and so on.

Makes me wonder whether it’s really worth it working from home.

 

[Dopious]

Been doing this on and off for 30+ years and I love it.

 

[polecat]

Pros

Ferrets with you always
Can eat or drinks whenever you want
Can workout whenever you want
I enjoy singing while I work.
Made a lot of cool friends or connections
Helps a lot with being type a diabetic can take insulin or whatever need at my leisure
If anyone needs me can help more easy .

I think a example best way to show it someone I knew was close to taking their own life so I sent people I knew to solve that and the person fine now so being able to help anyone whenever you want or can is useful.

Cons
Distractions
Running out of Indian food.

 

[t2van]

Pro of being at home the set up you have is you can claim back cost of utilities and bills etc via your annual return.

I think its X number of rooms not including bedrooms you can claw back. Can't exactly remember how it works tbh.


Commute has to be the biggest pro for me. ALTHOUGH I do have to drive the farm now and again but I try do that before rush hour or after rush hour traffic.

I don't think working for your self anyone takes seriously no matter the size. They either think you can drop stuff because you got staff to pick up your slack or you have no staff and it's not a real business. Personally that never changes. I don't see my family but her parents - still don't grasp what I do really. Despite her dad being in IT security for a major bank for 30+ years it's still not a "9-5" who wants that anyway?

Love my wife to bits but she can be guilty of sometimes taking what I do for granted.

As mentioned my office is "technically" away from my home so I can switch it off or at least close a door.

BUT even in the house I'm constantly on a laptop. It's wet, wife and children out all day doing their own various things so I got the day to myself just catching up on things I miss as I was out yesterday.

 

[MgicalaEarner]

Before marriage it was going greate but after marriage its really hard to work from home :|

 

[ggmopa]

Been doing this on and off for 30+ years and I love it.

Can’t imagine what it would’ve been working from home back when most people didn’t even own a personal computer! Wonder if it was easier back then die to the lack of competition or harder due to the lack of technology and infrastructure.

 

[roydan]

So I'm 100% from home at the moment, thought seriously about getting an office, and decided against it.
It resurface a few weeks ago, so here's where I am now in the pros vs cons:

Pros of WFH:
1. No driving. This is big for me because I fuckn hate driving. Like, imagine the exact opposite than Jeremy Clarkson.
2. My own space, filled with the little distractions I need when I need to think about something away from the screen.
3. Cost saving and home expenses I can drop on the business. It's a little bonus, not really a make or break because it sums up to a little less than $2K/mo.
4. Time flexibility: I'm putting it in even though it's bullshit and I know it.
5. I have a pretty cool guitar wall around me, which is an amazing ice breaker in first meetings. It doesn't really change things because we're about to move soon anyways and I don't plan on redoing it.
6. Proximity to inheritors: my two daughters' kindergartens are very close to my home, so as soon as something happens I can be there within minutes. It sounds stupid but it's important for a political reason O won't elaborate on here.
7. Would probably be harder to talk to most clients: I live in Israel and most of my clients are in the U.S, meaning that I speak to them in my evening. I worry that I will be less motivated to do so if I'm already home after work.

Cons:
1. Focus: I'll probably be 10 times more focused in an office with less distractions.
2. Need to dress up: I really believe I work better in jeans and a shirt than with shirts and a tank top and no way in hell that I'm dressing up for working from my home office.
3. Work day must end: when I work where I live, I tend to work all the time, I hope for a better ([||CLICHE ALERT||]): work life balance.
4. Talk to grownups: I rarely talk to grownups other than my wife (which also work with me) and renting an office can be a great opportunity for both of us to eat lunch with other people or together with more people.
5. Connections: Can't really count on it but you can't really know who I'll be around in the offices there.
6. Lunch break: I get the feeling that I won't skip lunch as often as I do when I WFH. Probably good for health and mind.
7. Seem more professional: there's no way around that.