People who work from home are more satisfied with their jobs
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#2I think that this study fails to address that they may confuse cause and effect. What is the reason for a telecommuting arrangement? Why doesn't that person just move closer to the job location? The answer is often that he has family ties. I would suspect that telecommuters are significantly more likely to have families, and that may have a pronounced effect on their views of their work life.
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#3I'm going a bit bonkers working from home, to tell the truth. The biggest problem is the fuzzy line between work and home.
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#4People have to be more satisfied with their jobs to work from home.
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#5Not having to keep a seat occupied in the office 5 days a week 8 hours a day also makes me happy.
Also, I suppose people that work from home are satisfied with their job exactly because the job allows working from home. It's not that common yet, so if you want it and find a job that allows it, it's double fun.
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#6I worked from home for years until our first child came along. Now I've started renting office space and I am happy to have a natural separation between work and home. When I switch the computer off and go home, I switch off and relax.
I now realise that this separation is important for your long term health and relationships.
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#7Having worked many jobs from an office, both cubes and private offices, and now working from home, I can say I LOVE working from home. I get interaction like I did before, phone, IM, email, etc. We have meetups all the time, and I still go out to lunch with folks so I can be around others once in a while.
I'm more productive, I'm happier, and I really think it shows in my work.
Of all the job changes I've had, this has been by far the most pleasant change.
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#8I'm going a bit bonkers working from home, to tell the truth. The biggest problem is the fuzzy line between work and home.
this was exactly my experience as well. another big factor was the im/email only communication 99% of the time started making my coworkers feel like anonymous web people. kind of surreal. I lasted about a year and a half before I ended up going back to an office gig.
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#9I have gone full circle. At first I loved the idea of working from the house. Years later, I love the office. The best mix is a combination of freedom of being able to pick your hours and working from home but still having that work place to go to.
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#10I think that this study fails to address that they may confuse cause and effect. What is the reason for a telecommuting arrangement? Why doesn't that person just move closer to the job location? The answer is often that he has family ties. I would suspect that telecommuters are significantly more likely to have families, and that may have a pronounced effect on their views of their work life.
I don't know, my reasons for working remotely have never had anything to do with family. Even now that I've got the wife & kid, they're not the reason I'm remote.
To put it bluntly, nobody has an office at the beach. Certainly not the beach in the tropics where I want to be. If there was a Google campus on a remote reef pass in the Mentawais, I might consider taking a seat in a cubicle. But there's not.
We're living in the future, where laptops weigh two pounds and good wifi is everywhere. That means my office can be anywhere I want it to be. As it turns out, I don't want it to be in an office park in the suburbs. Fortunately, it's 2011, so that's not an issue.