As some of you at
work might have noticed, I am not seen in office, occasionally offline on
communicator, sending emails from my phone, online at ungodly hours and
continuously setting up conference calls to catch up. In short - I am Working
from home :)
Many of us have the
privilege to keep an office laptop
providing the so called flexibility to work-when-you-like at any convenient
place. The added benefit to this is the
option to Work from Home (WFH). Even though hubby and I are in the same field
(IT), employed with quiet good companies (let's just assume this for now) and
have similar privileges, our typical day
is vastly different -
My day - Wake up,
eat breakfast, get ready, drive (traffic
these days is more stressful than watching a soap on TV) and then get
started with work! Numerous breaks (don’t judge me!), drive back, cook, eat and
continue with more work until midnight!
His day - Wake up,
eat breakfast(not forgetting the gazing at the newspaper), get back to his room
and get started with his work! A lunch
and a dinner break and he is back to his spot until I signal my end of
day!
Personally, I have never understood how anyone
could be productive working from home.
One reason could be that when I am at home, I forget about work from
home and instead indulge into working at home.
In addition, my nature of job is to collaborate with people; working
from home is simply counterproductive.
Well, that’s just
me! The better half however, is the complete opposite. He has utilized the
option to WFH to the fullest. Sometimes days, weeks and even months pass by and
he would happily sit at home and go click clacking on the laptop! At one point, I started to doubt if he was still employed ;). Of course the paycheck at the end of the month was very
re-assuring :).
No matter what I think about WFH, this option
now has come handy when I absolutely need it and whether I enjoy it or not, I
do appreciate the importance of this benefit :)
