5 Reasons Why Working from Home is Hurting You and Your Business

5 Reasons Why Working from Home is Hurting You and Your Business

1. The Distraction Trap
Simple math; less distractions = more productivity.  Working from home is full of distractions. If you work from home, there’s a strong chance that you’ll be having unwanted visitors popping in and out. Family, kids, pets. These interruptions can be harmful to the quality of your work, and definitely does not reflect well upon your customers.

 

 

2. Motivation Deflation 
The desire to jump out of bed in the morning and race off to tackle the day’s challenges are entirely lessened when you work from home. Instead, you feel more compelled to groggily roll out of bed, put on slippers rather than shoes, and slump down the hallway. Clothes aren’t even a necessity when you don’t have to leave the house. Slow starts can highly effect your work habits for the day when you run on your own schedule, and allow yourself to have these sluggish morning attitudes.

3. Structure Is Key
Working from home allows routine to fall to the wayside, whereas having an office elsewhere provides you with a structure that can keep you in line. Setting a time to get up in the morning, have breakfast, get ready, and head to work is a great way to start everyday. Structure is important to maintain an organized business. Stop by the café and grab your morning coffee, or chat with your other office members in the kitchen while you brew yourself a cup. Head to your space, get your work done, then take a break at lunch. All of these seemingly insignificant factors that you lack when you work from home add up to a productive and systemized work day.

 

4. Social Factors
Working from home often leads to near hermit-like life. Without having to leave the house for anything, people that work from home often don’t see anyone other than family for days. If you are self employed this also prevents you form networking and creating business leads along with a social life that suffers and flounders, which can be mirrored in the type of work that is produced. Having daily social interactions assists with inspiration and new ideas. A lunch-time chat with a colleague or co-worker at the office can give your brain the break it needs from the hard work, or better yet, motivate you to get back to work with a refreshed mind!

 

 

5. What Your Clients Might Think
Ask yourself this: if you were a customer looking for a new service, would you feel more compelled to visit the house with the tiny business sign on the front lawn, or head into the large, professional-looking business building with the quality business logo on the front? Working from home may be convenient, but it is not difficult to see why it may be turning off your clients from coming to you for business. Having a business address in a renown office building gives you credibility, which is something that every customer will be looking for from you.

 

 

The Downtown Business Centre - Chilliwack's Premier Office Space For Small Business
What the Downtown Business Centre offers is a a co-share concept with a twist.  We have office packages from just a mailing address and phone number all the way to over 6000 square ft of office space. We rent boardrooms and have a large reception area that can be used for social events. We have a full time receptionist to greet your clients and there is lots of parking. We have wifi, office equipment, dehumidified file storage facilities and the building is air conditioned. In short, everything you need to run your business.  We are as flexible as you need us to be.

 

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