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Five Common Myths about Working From Home

A great post from Rob Sanheim describing his experiences of working from home. I agree with most of the points that Rob makes, productivity goes up, but there are still those distractions such as the family pet trying to jump onto your lap. :)
The closing paragraph should sell it to anyone…

All in all, for most knowledge workers it just makes more sense to work from home. I think in ten years we may see a good third or even half of all programming work done by workers from home as more companies figure it out and realize that “eight hours in an office” doesn’t equal “eights hour of productivity”.

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2 Responses to “Five Common Myths about Working From Home”

  1. Dean Says:
    November 30th, 2006 at 7:21 pm

    Yep, there are certainly distractions. Especially when the Mrs. comes home from work with our daughter! She’s at the stage now where she has learnt to open doors. There are times when I could do with decent sound proofing in my office :-)

  2. Ben Says:
    December 5th, 2006 at 1:39 pm

    I ended up converting my garage into an office to get out of the house, however my family are really good with leaving me alone when I am working (except when there are spiders that need removing from my daughters room).

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