Feel like your office or cubicle has become a highly unproductive place to work these days? Well, you’re not alone. Workspaces such as offices and cubicles continue to dominate much of the big business world despite proven studies and research that continue to show that such work environments are severely outdated and actually are very unproductive to the average employee. Not only are they unproductive, but they are many times the added cause for a whole of of unnecessary stress in our day to day lives.
So what’s the solution you ask?
Technology makes it possible today for most people to do their jobs from just about anywhere including the comfort of their own homes. Working from home is a trend catching on quickly in the workplace and rightfully so. Employees are less stressed, distracted, and and tend to get more work done over actually being in the office. At the same time, businesses actually save money by cutting costs such as office space and other employee resources not needed when one works at home. Jason Fried is the co-founder of 37Signals, which is a successful web-application company who prides themselves on forward thinking and increasing productivity through the use of virtual offices (working at home). Here what he has to say in this interesting discussion:
