Challenges to face when working from home
July 10th, 2008 | by Adam Lucking |Most of us would love to have a job that allows us to work from home. This means going freelance or setting up our own business. The benefits are that you can be your own boss and work hours that suit your personal life.
With the price of fuel at the moment, there is the opportunity to save a considerable amount of money too. With the benefits come some disadvantages though and Choregus has listed these below.
Schedule
Being at home can be quite distracting with housework and even the TV to take you away from work. Even though working from home is good you need to set extremely strict hours to make sure that you are keeping the business is sustainable. If you have a business you really need to ensure your “open for business”.
Family
Family and friends have to learn and respect that your business is based from home. As such you will have to set strict rules. You are not on call to help out when they need you to. If you give in they will think that you are flexible in your hours, so you need to tell them to not disturb during certain times.
Admin
When your business starts to take off and rapidly grow you will find that the administration and phone calls will get on top of you. The best solution to help you is a virtual office. With this calls are put through to people who can take calls on your behalf, keeping your clients happy and letting you run your business. Administration staff can also help to take care of the day to day work too, so this can help to decrease work load.
By following the steps that Choregus has recommended, your business will run effectively and be sustainable.
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By Phil Gardener on Jul 11, 2008 | Reply
And if you read the thread posted on 11th July “Wilmslow serviced office space with a difference” you will see that some thought has been given to offering half-way house options between home, the corporate office and the serviced office. Whilst all will suit some of the time there will hopefully be an emergence of flexible drop-in workspaces that have all the benefits of a more traditional permanent office and the culture sought by Starbuckers, the creative coworking crowd and the SME. As a propriter of one of these centres (www.demute.co.uk) the criticism we often get is we’re too small, lack the finesse and facilities of a multi-national or don’t cater for the tastes of the media in-crowd i.e. bare brick and beanbags. But what we do well is understand what the core need of the homeworker is and deliver it in a corporate setting at an affordable price.