Work From Home The Most Trending Thing Now and Factors affecting?

Balvinder Singh
Tekraze
Published in
8 min readMar 22, 2020
Is Work From Home The Most Trending Thing Now and Factors affecting ?

First of all, hi to everyone and I believe everyone reading this, you are all safe at home and be safe. We all know Corona Virus or COVID-19 has caused a lot to us, and like many people get affected by it, so praying for all, who died, and the survivors to get well soon. This has like disrupted work as well, so like most of the companies are tackling this with something, we know like Work From Home. There is like a lot of talk going around on the Work from the home scene, some are like getting frustrated, some are making fun, and some enjoying too. So let us talk about work from Home.

Work From Home

As the name says, Work + Home, it simply means the Work we do as usual in the office normally, We now do from Home. It is nothing like something special and not that bad too. It is just a way to get work done, anyhow and like staying safe at home. You must be thinking, why I am writing about work from home? So I tell you like, the past 2 years and more, I am like working from Home. Being a developer, just the laptop + wifi combination works for me. And I tell you like, nothing feels better than this. let me tell you in the post ahead.

Why Work From Home Trending

You must be thinking like, it is trending because of the COVID-19, but no, it is very old work culture, started very long and like nearly all companies shifting to this. So like, it was being there, but now it has become a popular thing. It was not popular, as like only startups mostly practicing this, as they do not have like funds for office, but they have a product. So startups prefer the software over the office, and like work from home culture.

Reasons Why Work From Home Culture came into Picture

  1. Startups and Funding

Before talking about this, let’s talk about startups, as we all know startups are becoming popular with like need and innovations in technology, with like cutting edge. So like, even one people or two or more are like coming up with an idea of something to build that can change how things work, or like how people used to do something with. So the first issue everyone faces is like funds, they have like the idea but they do not have money to spend, because the product is just an idea in work and not implemented, and ready for market. So no product means no salary, no salary means no employees and without employees, like no office.
This is why most startups like Software-Based and App-based startups, are coming with the idea of work from home, to cut infrastructure costs as work can be done from anywhere initially.

2. Freelancing

The freelancing as we know, is also a form of work from home, not exactly. Freelancing came before this work from home culture, and as you can say, it leads to work from Home. In freelancing, there was a freedom to like a person working with a client; Without having any dedicated office, physical interactions, by just using websites and apps for communications, and also like payments without worrying. As the only work matters, both the client and the freelancer get satisfied. So, like we can say it to be a good reason for work from home culture.

3. Traveling

Yeah, the main thing like everyone ignores, yes, traveling. initially, this was an issue like most of the people do use to travel for long in the morning to the office, and like back in the evening. The company may be far or near, but traveling still has a cost. The cost comes in two forms, one is monetary and the other is time-based. When we do travel, time is spent, also like we need to pay for transportation. So like, this is one benefit to employees, as they do not need to spend either time or money.
Let us assume, a person travels 1 hour one way, and then back another hour. The cost maybe likes 20 on each side, so the total becomes 40 for 2 Hours travel.
Multiplying it by let say 6, (keeping sunday as Off) We have 40 * 6, and for a month, 40 * 6 * 4 (28 days) = 960 and the time 2 * 6 * 4 = 48 hrs = 2 days.
So like, without travel, you would have saved like around 2 days and 960 units of money, is not it good, Yeah it’s good.
This is another benefit for startups, as employees were working from home, have no late coming problems or like traffic problems to say to the company. Also for like employees, instead of traveling he can spend additional time on something else productive.
Another benefit, not like for all (Only devs have this), is like you do not have to dress up daily, and worry about what to wear and what not to wear, you can just be comfortable in your trousers or like whatever makes you feel comfortable at work.

4. Internet Cost and Bandwidth

The Internet is like the most necessary thing, to have in a company. So like, employees can access, data from other sites, do email communications, live conferences or like deployments over the server. Now everything requires the internet from like sending a mail, to like doing video call meetings. Providing better internet is office is like a headache, as it needs to be fast and a lot of bandwidth, as all employees will be using. So like setting up even a small office network infrastructure, it is not affordable for everyone. Even after having a network, employees may complain of low speed, or like connectivity issues. Whatever you increase there will always be bandwidth issue and also the cost.
But like being working from home, everyone has their internet plans, they can choose freely. As companies only require work to be provided, them, and not like which internet you used to work and share. So like the network cost is also cut, and like fixing any issue in the network is like employees himself concern and not as companies.

5. Productivity

We, humans, are all same and like, we do meet people, we make friends do have relationships. Like we may spend more time while tea time, with teammates. Do like gossips, with teammates even in work hours. So like there can be many distractions, (Not like having people around is bad, but it is fun, I am just highlighting one thing) which while working from home, we do not have. We are only one working and focused on work instead of like distracted by something else. Other things can be like, wearing comfortable clothes, sitting on like our place, where we feel comfortable, our productivity increases.
I have experienced this same as I used to work at the office and like at home both, but like I was more productive at home than at the office, and as the work was done was also more.

6. Family Time and Health

According to some psychology, reports employees do have some mental and health issues, as they spend more time at work than at home. There may be a case like someone having issues at home, not able to like concentrate on work. Also, there may be cases, like not getting enough leaves, or like tight work schedules. Most of the people do not get quality time with their family.
So like, being at home, you can do work without leaving the family at home to go office. Being at home, employees feel happy and good. Fewer leaves asked as the employees, already home. The work timelines can also be adjusted as if one has to go somewhere with family in the morning. he can do work at night or evening and vice versa.
Most of the people do work on a laptop only, so like work can also be done like when you are out somewhere with the family.
So like, this has helped companies to have healthy as well as happy employees, making work from home culture a good thing.

7. Remote Locations and Hiring

This is also one factor, more for like employees than the company. Not all are like lucky to get a job in his hometown or city, they need to go far away cities or like even countries to get a job. Also like companies, may not get sometimes good people at a location.
So like, with work from home, people can get jobs far away (remotely) and; also companies can hire talented people from any end of the world. I too work like from India, for a US startup StaffBox.

8. Company Costs and Currencies

This one is beneficial for like companies only, but for an employee, too. Like a company may need devs, a social media marketing team, or different types of work. Even like talking about a Dev, let say a US startup can get people from India at cheap rather than A US Dev, as the currency is like different, there is like 1 $ for the US, which is like around 70 INR for India. So like the companies can get employees, with fewer salaries easily and cut the costs, also like increasing the workforce with the same budget.

9. Software and Apps

So like, in Companies where support is required, email communication is enough or like calling. There are like virtual numbers, emails, and like virtual SMS services, that like people can use. For devs like tracking code with the use of Git, designers like with graphics and videos. Most of the work is like Digital and can be done from anywhere, just with a laptop or like iPad, tablet in hand with a mobile internet connection.
Another thing like tracking employees can be done with camera monitoring apps, time trackers, and task tracking boards too.
Communication on Like Skype, Slack and more. So everything can be done with the use of a Software or App. This is another thing, like which is making Work from Home easier. As shifting from physical to digital is like easier, and even need.
The use of software also provides like analytics, tracking and like records of how employees did the work and what happened which is like analyzing what employees do while sitting in an office.

Final Words

So like I have shared what is Work home and like factors of how work from home culture came into Picture. I am not saying like, it is best for everyone, but like I shared what I experienced and feel being working at home (remotely). Let me know your thoughts, suggestions that you feel in the comments below. Also please do share, with others so like other people can also know about this.
Keep checking back I will be writing more, posts related to this like its benefits and Cons, as for now I just shared why this came in the picture. So I will update the link here once we are done.

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Balvinder Singh
Tekraze

Open Source FullStack Developer | Blogger | Crypto Enthusiast | Gamer