February 24, 2013
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Working from Home
The CEO of Yahoo has put an end to the policy of workers working from home. Some of their workers were allowed to work from home if they were not close to one of the company’s offices. Here is the link: Link
Do you think you have the discipline to work from home?
Comments (46)
As long as I had deadlines, sure. Or, shall I say this: yes, I’d have just as much incentive to work if I were working from home as if I were working at an office somewhere.
Hell yeah! Best part is no dress code!
I have worked from home many times. And from my sister’s house 900 miles away. And from hotel rooms all over the country while I was on vacation. So, yes.
I’d love to work from home
I currently work from home and it is the BEST job i have ever had
I’ve done it. It wasn’t too hard to remain disciplined when money is coming in. Of course, certain metrics had to be met every week just like in other jobs, so not having the discipline would get you the pink slip quickly anyway.
Yesssssssssss.
Yeah, as long as I had goals. I do e-learnings at home sometimes now, but I get paid hourly.
I did it almost 2 years. It’s nice when you’re sick or want to take a vacation and can just kick off for a day or three without having to call in and use sick time, but it’s also easier to get distracted by tv or books or the internet or anything else when you’re working in your house in your PJs. Also if it’s a 1099 job, taxes will fuck you hard.
depends on the job. some things i could probably do better from home than the office.
Yes. It saves travel time, dress to a dress code time. My short stint working from home was great. If I was tired I’d nap but I’d work refreshed later into the evening or night. You don’t sit there watching the clock waiting for lunch hour. You don’t chat with coworkers although there is value in that. There were times I’d wake up in the middle of the night with a solution or an idea and I could hop on the computer right away, get it done then go back to sleep. It depends on the industry of course. Most of my life I was a musician. Pro musicians spend many hours every day practicing without pay to prepare for the gigs that pay. So yeah, I have the discipline.
Yes it takes discipline and considering the US already has some of the worst work place productivity in the world, people working from home cannot help.
I do it every so often. It depends on how urgent the work is for me. I’m just amazed to know that Yahoo is still around!
Pff hell no.
I would love to… remote teacher! ^..^
Absolutely not. I’d get stuff done, but I’d constantly let myself become distracted. I can’t even do a few hours of homework without distraction.
As long as you deliver against your dead lines a quality service to your employer…who cares where the job gets done. You can interact with your coworkers via skype and other social software with the same ease. I think it is a step backward for yahoo.
I might not..I doubt it still because I haven’t had any experience yet.. but as long as the circumstances are there to coincide with my comfort then why not! hahaha, trying is worthwhile.. and i’m studying while im working. I mean I’m a student scholar after all, so perhaps less worries are just lingering in my head right now.
I would not want to work from home, I am unemployed at the moment (have no ideas about setting up a company, because of the current economy
My Granddad has his own company based at home, does not work every day as he getting older, his office staff share days.
Yepp. I wish I could work at home so I’d be able to write, too.
I’ve done it before so know I can, but in my current job I’m learning (much to my dismay) it’s the spontaneous “Got 5 minutes?” discussions that really get things moving. Those you tend to miss out on if you aren’t around in person.
Yes. I have a business. I work from home every day.
Been working from home for the past 3 years, so yes I believe so.
One thing that some people aren’t aware of; working from home does not give you a clear distinction from when you are on/off work, so I often time feel like I am on call all the time. I’ve found myself working late at night and weekends sometimes because I see an email pop up and figure I can just take care of it now.
Depends on the job. I’m a freelance artist, so working from home is everything. Then again, I am doing what I love so it doesn’t feel like work. Getting clientele is where the work comes in. The time between one assignment and the next can be daunting because the money is all gone. I need more business.
Not with Xanga around, NO!
Not sure if you saw my post, but I am working from home. It’s not that hard if you can stay focused on work and finishing all the tasks in any given day that you are tasked with. Teleworking is fun and I like it a lot. Lame move for yahoo. I just hope they are pulling the plug because of lack of productivity or something similar.
I never believed in it or causal days.
But of course.
Just think…a sex offender could still tutor kids over the internet….or
Someone really ugly or with hygiene problems could work at home.
Time to check on Yahoo and find out if Theo Dan is telling the truth….
Maybe Theo Dan was wondering if the average person could work productively at home? The link provided is from Great Britain and the comments are talking about lazy yahoo! workers.
Great that some commenters have said they are not able to work at home….maybe that is what Theo Dan was looking for. However most people who work are home are productive. It is a win win situation when you cut out time lost commuting. I wonder if Theo Dan would have workers who work at home for his office?
That’s pretty much what I’m doing now, so I suppose that’s a yes.
i work from home on occasion and NO, i do not have the discipline to do so. besides, it’s nice to work outside the home.
NO. I really wouldn’t. Plus I don’t have the kind of job that could be done from home.
Plus I would go stir crazy if I was always home. I’m actually more relaxed by work. Go figure.
I work from home. I prefer working from in the office. But, the company I worked for no longer has offices in this city- so I work from home.
I still shower and put on a dress shirt every day except Fridays. (I wear jeans – but that’s no big deal).
Non-productive time is about a wash.
I close the door on my home office and only come out for breaks and lunch.
In the office, there was always all day long socializing going on. Now I have to go out of my way for that!
Yes. I’ve been working from home for three years.
@Thatslifekid - We still have a dress code. My husband and I are both part of the Work at Home “project” for a call center.
Honestly, as shitty as my attendance is (the job makes me sick and I’m pregnant on top of that), it would be much worse if I had to drive in center every day. Working from home, if I get to feeling better, I can log back in later in the day. If my last job would have allowed me to work from home, I wouldn’t have had to quit. As much as the job itself was boring and administration irritated me, it really was my coworkers (and their stench) that drove me snap.
I worked from home for four years. Hard to do – no denying that. But I am about to start doing it again, so I guess I do have the discipline. It’s the lack of people that makes it hard for me, not the discipline to get work done.
I do work from home, as a medical transcriptionist. I have a terrific job – I don’t work for a contracting service, but for an actual hospital and I get a set hourly wage as opposed to being paid by the line/word. I go in 2 or 3 times a year for staff meetings, and once a year for my annual review. I save money on clothes and transportation, and time on travel. I work specific days/hours which I think makes it easier to be disciplined about doing your job from home as opposed to working a couple hours here and there whenever you want. The only downside I’ve noticed is that unlike other Minnesotans I never get a “snow day.” :)
perhaps. but what i really want you to ask your massive audience is what they do if they work from home. those answers would help many people who are needing ideas not to mention the networking and help from people already doing it.
I do 80% of my work at home, which is the reason I put up the other pretentious B.S. of academia
(: Dannypants
I doubt it. lol
Heck, I didn’t have it at work! Actually, I think I would get even more done at home. Depends on what the job is of course. If I had to phone co-workers instead of turning around to ask them the same question, that would get annoying. But I don’t need the presence of others to spur me to action.
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Nope! I’d be on Xanga/FB all day. Wait, I do that at work anyway.
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