Hilarious Innovations for the passionate you #7
Work at the office at home
By now most companies allow their co-workers to work from home one or more days per week. Working at home is great. It saves people the stress of having to commute to work. Hours and hours of traffic jams. Or sitting in crowded metros or public transport that arrive either too late or never at all.
Working from home saves us from all of that. We can enjoy the luxury of working from our home. We are home when the kids arrive from school, and when goods are delivered to our doorstep. It’s a blessing.
But working from home also has its disadvantages. You are alone. You don’t enjoy the social team bonding. You might miss out on some important ad-hoc meeting in the office. Yes, you can schedule meetings via Skype, Hangouts or Facetime, but let’s face it. It’s not the same as a real face-to-face meeting, is it?
So that’s why I present you work at the office at home (W@O@H). W@O@H allows you to work from home, just like you did in the regular Work@Home setting. Only this time, your colleagues come to work at your home as well. There are loads of advantages to W@O@H:
- No office space is required. Because teams always move around, the company doesn’t need a fixed office space. Which means… a massive saving on infrastructure.
- Those days you don’t work at home, you might save on commute time. Since every day you work somewhere else, chances are, your commute is shorter compared to moving to the same office space every day.
- You get to learn more about your colleagues. You meet their spouses, kids, and family. It makes for a more social driven team.
- More cookies at the office. Every home worker will do his/her best to make their colleagues feel at home. So they will bake more cookies, pies, etc. Everyone happy, right?
- Over lunch time, your colleagues can give you a hand in assembling that brand new IKEA wardrobe you just bought. It will save you hours and hours of looking at the assembly plan, trying to figure out which part goes where.
- As your colleague’s commute, you can ask each and every one of them to bring you some items from your weekly grocery list. For them it’s only a small detour past the shop. For you it’s a big time saver on your weekly shopping.
So work at the office at home only has advantages compared to traditional office work or even work at home. It’s the future of office working.
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