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Benefits and downsides to Working from home?

<p>People who do not work from home may wish that hey did, why would you want to?</p> <p> </p> <p>For those who have experience of working from home, please share the benefits and downsides of working from home.</p>

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Question added by Qasim Ahmed , Snr Testing Analyst , Cigna Healthcare
Date Posted: 2014/10/18
Muhammad Salman Jahanzeb
by Muhammad Salman Jahanzeb , Assistant Manager Accounts , Prudent Accountants

In my experience the benefits were:

A flexible time arrangement, I was given assignments with a fixed deadline and so I was given freedom on how many hours I spent on each assignment. the output was accepted as long as it met the employers quality standards.

I felt more comfortable working from my own computer as I am more comfortable with the operating system and the keyboard I use.

I could multi task at will, again I had freedom in the way I perfomed my tasks as my output was the only thing being judged.

 

The main drawback was that I eventually lost motivation to work due to lack of any workplace interaction. The only interaction I had with my employer was when I was accepting assignments and recieving payments. There was no interaction with any colleague.

Dina Ritonga
by Dina Ritonga , Marketing , ERA

Advantage:

- FOR EMPLOYER:

* able to save rental office

* able to save many daily needs for office like :electricity, internet, food supply for meeting, stationary, etc

 

* FOR EMPLOYEE :

* balance career & life

* work can be able submited everywhere eventhouh in your bedroom or when staff on vacation

* able to save daily needs go to ofifice like vehicle credit bank or fee for public transportation like bus/train

* train yourself to manage yourself because less of monitoring

* without vissa if the staff exactly qualified able to be employee to get dolar from other many countries.

 

-  FOR ENVIRONMENT :

* because less of vehicle in town, so therfore town much better in fresh air.

* forest will not be cut for demand of office building, so wild animal can be growth in their habitat

 

Disadvantage :

- FOR EMPLOYER :

* not able to communicate directly, it depends on the quality of internet/quota telephone

 

- FOR EMPLOYEE:

* less of social friend in office

* has to serve good quality internet in home

* must has mobile office needs like google meet, google drive,storage in mobile device

Saeed Ahmed
by Saeed Ahmed , Chief Architect at Pacific Design centre , Pacific Limited- Malawi & Zambia

Advantage:

1. Concentration.

2. Flexibility of working hours.

3. more productive because of frequent breaks in work hours.

Suitable for Freelance workers.

Disadvantages:

1. Less productive if there are kids in house.

2. Less social environment.

3. No competition & challenging environment.

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