Some people prefer working at home than doing the usual eight hour office jobs. This is because aside from the benefit of being with your family more often, working at home also reduces the stresses of everyday living. Here are some reasons why a work at home lifestyle may be more relaxing.
Travel from office to workplace is stressful. Unless you live in the city, traveling from your house to your office is already stressful. You wake up early, only to be stuck in the morning traffic rush for hours. Then, you have to find a parking space. Unless you are a top honcho in the company with a dedicated parking slot, you have no other choice but to fight for a free slot. Then you have to rush from the parking lot to the elevator to beat the time clock before you are late. And your day has not even started yet!
When you work from home, you can practically work in your pajamas and sit in a recliner while you stay cool sipping a glass of lemonade.
Your colleagues are giving you stress. Here comes the office bully. You have to wait for him to get his freshly brewed cup of coffee before you can take yours. How about office red tape? Your inefficient finance department has been processing your reimbursement check for ages, but you need the money now because you're running low on pocket money. You can't miss your morning without hearing Winnie the whiner. She whines about everything, but most of the time about work. While you try your very best to shield yourself from her, you can't help but hear her whines.
Your work environment is simply stressful with all these people. When you work from home, you can avoid having to deal with these folks.
Your boss is the ultimate source of your stress. There is an old office joke about bosses. There are only two nationalities a boss can have: RUSHian and URGENTinian. All work is either rush or urgent. You can argue, but your boss is always right. Bosses sometimes think of you as a magician, who can produce output in an instant. Sometimes, they give you a number of jobs that are all priority, and all number one in your work list.
At home, you have no boss. Or if you have one, at least he's out there somewhere, and not physically breathing down your neck, unless he calls, emails or texts you every five minutes.
Working at home means avoiding all the stressful activities mentioned above. You don't have to think about parking, or traffic, or even fuel increases. Your office is already your home and you don't have to go anywhere else. You don't have to beat the time clock. You don't have to argue with your RUSHian boss and you won't hear Winnie the whiner anymore. While arguably your family can also give you some stress, at least they're people you love, and you know that they will understand if you need time to focus on your work.
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