Working from Home

If you are offered the opportunity to be home-based rather than office-based are there any implications? For example tax, mortgage insurance etc?

wrist cramps?

You’ll need to tell your insurers. Assuming you’re just sitting in front of a pc it’s not an issue.

In theory your employers is responsible for h&s so may feel the need to ‘inspect’ your working environment.

You may be able to claim a percentage of your household costs depending on your arrangements.

Jeremy Kyle is on at 9.25 every day.

wrist cramps?

When I used to get wrist cramps at work, my boss would utter the doctrine “…99, change.”

You’ll be bored. I’ve done it for the last six months and really miss human contact. My wife comes home and I’m desperate to talk when she is just wanting to chill out.

On the plus side you’ll get loads of time for bikes, music, deliveries, rubbish daytime tv (homes under the hammer) and possibly even work if your that way inclined.

I work from home and love the flexibility of not having anyone watching what I’m doing, the first couple of weeks are difficult as I felt guilty and ended up doing far more work than I did when I was in the office, but it’s calmed down now. I love the fact that I can have a stressful phone call/email and just walk the dog around the field to calm down and clear my head before doing anything else plus I’m in for all the CRC et-al packages!

Sometimes I do miss people, but I’m pretty much 50:50 office and meetings/sites so it’s not too bad as I see plenty of people while in meetings/sites, but don’t have to put up with hearing about the latest office dramas 🙂

Ooooh, interesting, I’ve just gone for a job which should see me do a fair bit of WFH. Left 4 Dead doesn’t count as work right?

Personally I’d be bored sh**less in no time. I quite like the company of other people in the work place and the discipline of going to / from work at (roughly) set times. I also get nicely woken up by cycle ride in every morning. Although, if my commute was an hour stuck in traffic in the car, I can see it would be a different story entirely!

Footflaps +1, I don’t like it!

Public liability insurance if you have buisnness visitors,

Parking problems for the neighbours, as above,

No fuel or commuting costs, not clogging up the roads in rush hour,

Tell your home insurance company, landlord or mortgage providor,

You’ll be bored. I’ve done it for the last six months and really miss human contact. My wife comes home and I’m desperate to talk when she is just wanting to chill out.
On the plus side you’ll get loads of time for bikes, music, deliveries, rubbish daytime tv (homes under the hammer) and possibly even work if your that way inclined.

I can do the same but becuase of the above I’ve chosen to only Wfh twice a week in er, “training days”. On the odd occasion my wfh lunch hour is a bike ride, less so now becuase the evenings are light. Even then, I work my hours pre / after 9 and around the kids so as to be seen not to able the privilege.

If you are offered the opportunity to be home-based rather than office-based are there any implications?

I’ll not be able to nip into your garden and steal your underpants off the washing line any more if you’re there all the time.

Lunch Time Rides?

I’ll not be able to nip into your garden and steal your underpants off the washing line any more if you’re there all the time.

Another mystery solved…

Mikewsmith, an hour and three quarters?!

Work from home a lot. Boredom is a big issue and I sometimes suspect I’m developing ADHD I am that easily distracted. I need to be quite disciplined about what I’m trying to achieve and pretty much micro manage myself (break the day into small chunks and set specific objectives!) otherwise I tend to drift off (mostly on to here.) Being in close proximity to a fridge full of food is also a bit of an issue when boredom sets in. However being able to walk the dog is nice, as is seeing more of Blobby Jr on the days he’s also around the house. And being able to do a lunchtime ride/turbo is also a bonus (though I’m careful not to upload to Strava!)

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Mikewsmith, an hour and three quarters?!

I know it was a tight day….

I should probably add I work part time these days so have 1/2 the week free. I was about to roll out last week and ended up doing a sales call in my ride gear!

You’ll need to tell your insurers. Assuming you’re just sitting in front of a pc it’s not an issue.

In theory your employers is responsible for h&s so may feel the need to ‘inspect’ your working environment.

You may be able to claim a percentage of your household costs depending on your arrangements.

If you are only home working (and/or if self-employed doing your books etc) there is no need to inform anyone – only if you’ve business visitors is there an issue.

And no claim for any costs, except if home-based you should be able to claim for any journey taken for business purposes. Or if home and a specific office based, any journey not between those two. But obviously you’ll save commuting costs.

Whilst I like the idea, all my colleagues who do it either admit to missing the human contact, or are so desperate to talk utter shite when they are in the office that they clearly are missing human contact.

To be fair, most of them were forced to go to home working after office closures/relocations.

I’d like the flexibility to be able to work from home occasionally to make better use of my time around site visits, but it is all at home or all in the office with us.

I’ve worked from home for the majority of my time since 2006 and there are only a few financial implications in my opinion. The main ones being:
Claiming expenses for travel to business meetings.
Company car option due to business travel.
No commuting costs
Reduced child care, as I can do the school run most of the time.

The main issues to be weighed up are are not financial though & I can certainly see how it won’t be good for everyone.
For example, you’ve got to be very motivated & ideally under pressure to make it work, otherwise distraction could be a major problem.
You have to find ways of dealing with the isolation, otherwise loneliness & paranoia (not knowing what’s going on in the office, or with your colleagues) could be a problem. Regular face to face meetings and decent online communication tools are invaluable for this too IMO.
If you’ve got a young family, like me, it gives you a fantastic opportunity to be there for them, much more so than if you had to work in an office/ factory from 9 to 5.

Basically if you’ve got an addiction to gaming, adult internet browsing habits or just love Jeremy Kyle, it’s probably not for you, but if you’re not too bothered about these things, give it a go, you might find you love the flexibility it gives you instead.

Been doing this 4 days a week since start of April, love it. Extra hour in bed, 60+ minute each way commute is gone, saves about £40 a week in,petrol.

Still get the human contact the one day a week when I am in the office, plus there’s at least one weekly conference call

mikewsmith, something a bit more honest http://app.strava.com/activities/66294098 😉

Basically if you’ve got an addiction to gaming STW, adult internet browsing habits or just love Jeremy Kyle, it’s probably not for you