THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF WORKING FROM HOME- A MODERN TECHNOLOGY DILEMMA

oluwoleolaide (68)in #technology • 6 years ago

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Offices and workspaces have become less of a necessity thanks to modern technology, instead of spending much time on the road to and from office/work, much of those wasted time could be spent with families and loved ones if one worked from home on their private computers. Advancement in technology has made smart working free-for-all, provided you have the necessary skills and tools to do so from wherever you are on the planet.

ADVANTAGES

This scenario we found ourselves in has advantages and disadvantages, for both the worker and the employer. One of the benefits to anyone who has the technological know-how so as to work and make a living for his or herself from home, anyone who owns electronic devices, smartphones and tablets or laptops and personal computers with internet connectivity has all the flexibilities in the world to do other things, for example, Childcare. A father or mother, or at the same time both parents could stay at home to work few or long hours from home without needing to rush out in the early hours or late nights to get to their office and work.

Individual parents might have a sick child at home to attend to, or have a school art/play to attend to, even parents could attend their children’s sports and games and work extra hours later from home without having to go back to office to make up family time and bonding all thanks to the internet, cloud computing and IoT- Internet of Things.

A win-win situations for families, folks who just starts to raise their offer springs. Both parent could work from home and have the optimum time to take care of their children themselves without having to pay for baby sitters and day-care centres which actually cost a fortune.

Working from home out rightly or partially is one of the precious gifts of modern technology; it saves a lot of time and energy both for employers and employees. The problem of wasted work time is cut out, lost time of work might be due to bad weather, transportation issues to and from home which creates more time for Job efficiency and greater output.

Moreover, working from home also saves a lot in the cost of running and operating a business. For business owners, the funds needed to rent office space, pay for utility bills could be channelled into other operations of such a business.

DISADVANTAGES

There could be dozens of downsides to working from home too, one of this is distractions. There might be little or no time to focus on a task with multiple distractions from the kids, neighbours, personal phone calls and much other interference. No parents would want to ignore their child’s attention, kids are naturally attention seeking and what is the purpose of working and making a living if not for them, so ignoring them is not something every parents would do and this might hampered several tasks to be completed.

For employers, it is difficult to keep track of what their remote workers are doing at home or anywhere else, they must get paid and this puts a lot of employers at risks of paying for wasted time spent by an employee on something uncircumstancial.

Furthermore, working from home consume all your time without paying attention or doing something else. For example, working from offices usually takes 8a.m to 5p.m or 9 to 6p.m, except on overtime work cases which gets paid for, working from home could take more than these hours as some people get engrossed in their works; some important things might be neglected like feeding the baby, changing their diapers, using their drugs (in case of medical conditions) etc.

Working from home might not be so conducive for some; hence their performances and output might drop. Offices ambience, settings, work desk and chairs could be the factors missing at home which is hard to design and make a home look like a real office.

With this good and bad factors associated with modern technology, both business owners, employer and employees have to weigh their options and see how each affects their life and rest of mind before determining which one better suits their purposes. Thanks for reading.