Would you like to telecommute to your next job? Of course, I would because it would be very convenient for me. Why? Because I can work from the comfort of my own home and it would be very convenient to my lifestyle.
For example, I go to school online, that means that right after work, I can just go straight forward to complete and do my schooling like this assignment I am completing. There are so many advantages that people don’t have any knowledge about. Some of the advantages are conserving energy meaning that I won’t have to use my car as much, so I won’t waste money on repairs or on gas, which is very expensive. I also won’t have to drive through traffic and that means if more people telecommute, there would also be fewer cars on the streets and highways as well as creating less traffic.
Less traffic, also mean less money we, tax payers, have to spend on building more highways and not only does it save us money, but conserves our energy that we don’t have to waste. Another advantage is it helps preserve our environment, meaning fewer cars on the road would lead to less pollution and emission problems that we currently have. It also means that if there are fewer cars on the road, we can reduce the highways and we can reduce parking lots and create more parks and recreational centers for our children. Another advantage is it promotes safety, meaning if there are fewer cars on the road and highways, which means less car accidents as well. So, people that telecommute would be saving lives every year, instead of being another death statistic due to rush hour traffic, because someone was trying to get to work without being late.
Telecommuting also improves health, that means less stress, because you won’t have to worry about arriving to work on time, or if your car isn’t in good condition to drive, one won’t have to worry about how you are going to make it at work, it just takes some of the everyday stress one would have to go through. A very huge advantage is family.
Telecommuting allows one, to spend time with their family. Instead, of losing precious time with your family , working at some distant location , telecommuting allows you to work at home and spend time with your love ones, making and building stronger relationships, and becoming a closer family , more than ever before.
Telecommuting also allows freedom which means you can work flexible hours and be very comfortable in your own work environment. It also improves in work productivity, which means if one was working in their old job he or she would have to waste time doing ridiculous, unrelated tasks, so instead of wasting that time, one can be improving on their productivity. One other advantage I forgot to mention is that you can telecommute anywhere, so if your family or yourself decides to move, you can telecommute, onto the next destined location, it is almost perfect.
Just like everything in this world, there are always some setbacks. Telecommuting has some disadvantages. Some of these disadvantages are diminished productivity, meaning that for reasons such as family problems can distract one from working, or one can’t seem to concentrate on the work related task due to the fact they occupy themselves with another activity like watching TV or any other non-work related activity.
Another disadvantage would be isolation, if you work for yourself chances are one might be less motivated without working with their peers as before in his or her previous job. One of the most impacting disadvantages is that fact that you can only depend on yourself for everything, including finding sales, updating your work, organizing your work, balancing business accounts, customer service and much, much, more.
This in fact creates a lot more pressure to succeed and a lot more stress to move the company into a better position. What are some of the old thinking concerns about telecommuting? It would be for the fact that it is less interactive with other people.
Meaning that one would lose their social skills and in fact wouldn’t know how to interact well with other people. That could lead to an unsuccessful business, sometimes is harder to convince people to buy or try your product over the phone , than to be live in person trying to convince he or she that your are the company that he or she has been looking for. Everybody thinks differently, there are many people who work better without interacting with people face to face and they got the job done.
What jobs are not suitable for telecommuting? Jobs that are required to have face to face interaction and that cannot transfer or remove private information to their own homes. I myself own my own small based business at home and here some of the things that I recommend to start up with. I would first get a couple of desktop computers, a minimum of two at least , to work on your company with, then get of course a separate phone line for your business, also get an all in one laser printer , that prints, that performs as a scanner and a Xerox machine , and as a fax. If you decide to get a regular printer and don’t want to buy a fax machine, then download the software win fax, and one can receive fax from their computer through their business email account.
Also get the software QuickBooks Intuit 2008, the enterprise edition which works as, an accounting program, a point of sale program, an inventory control program, does just about everything. One last thing to get is Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise edition, which you can use for many things like making pamphlets and flyers, and it’s unlimited to what it can provide for your small business, trust me.
