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This week’s reflection point: Over the past 5 years I have worked primarily from my home office while my team continued working from our main office. I loved the new arrangement as I found it convenient and it worked extremely well for me. Then, as a couple of our team members moved out of state and a couple of our new hires lived overseas, I approached my “home” team to see if they would like to work from home. The answer was a resounding yes!
It’s been over a year since we closed our physical office, enabling our entire team to work from their homes and leverage technology to improve our communication, productivity and lifestyle. The many benefits include:
- Improve productivity
- Eliminate commute time
- Enable more flexible schedules
- Reduce interruptions and the water cooler effect
- Gain a sense of autonomy
- Be close to your family
- Big brother is not watching you
- Blast your favorite music and wear your wildest outfits
- Improve your life balance and reduce stress
- Save huge dollars otherwise spent on rent
- Leverage technology to easily and instantaneously communicate with each other and share documents and workload with each other
- Use technology to improve the speed of communication with clients
This week’s tip: Whether you head a team or not, if you are not working from your home office, I encourage you to consider making the change. If you are working from home, why not leverage technology to improve your productivity and relationship with your clients?
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