Working from home isn\u2019t what it used to be.\u00a0 It means something different now than it did twenty years ago, however the perception of it hasn\u2019t change near as much as the profession itself has.\u00a0 Due to the thousands of \u201cwork from home\u201d scams, it has given those of us who work from our home office a bad stigma that we have to shake off.\u00a0 When asked where I work at a party, I almost hate to say \u201cfrom home,\u201d as many assume that means I sell Tupperware from my garage or that I\u2019m really between jobs.<\/p>\n
Years ago, working from home was something of a pipedream.\u00a0 Scammers and TV ads spammed it, claiming you could make 10k a week sitting at home working 2 hours a day.\u00a0 With the majority of society realizing this was nothing short of ridiculous, a common belief came that those who worked at home were the suckers who fell for one of these scams.\u00a0 Working from home really meant \u201cabout to be unemployed\u201d.\u00a0 But what has changed over the last decade or two?<\/p>\n
Our tools of the trade have changed dramatically over the past 2 decades.\u00a0 We have grown from a home office requiring an entire desk space of equipment and thousands of dollars of investing, to mobile touch screen devices the size of a book for only a few hundred dollars.\u00a0 What we can do from home today simply wasn\u2019t possible even ten years ago.\u00a0 With the invention of iPads and high end laptops, we now have the hardware to support our on the go lifestyles and at home needs.\u00a0 Another required upgrade for at-home working has been the network infrastructure of the world.\u00a0 Although there are still places stuck on dial up connections, most people have access to high speed DSL or Cable internet services, which allow us to stream video and audio, transfer files, and complete video or teleconference calls with one another over the net.\u00a0 Mobile cell networks have also significantly improved with 3G and 4G LTE speeds now becoming available all over.\u00a0 So with everything that has changed, why hasn\u2019t the viewpoint on working from home?\u00a0 And what can we do as workers to convince them otherwise?<\/p>\n
Convincing people that working from home is a whole different game than it used to be won\u2019t be easy, but that change will come over time.\u00a0 As UC gains a larger foothold at more and more companies, more people will be able to start working from their homes and the stigma will be lifted.\u00a0 No longer will it just be bloggers and call centers working from their homes, but every position in every workplace will have the ability to work without the commute to their office and still be just as effective.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a scam, or a short lived fad.\u00a0 Technology is moving forward in a direction that allows us to be mobile, and be beneficial employees, whether we are at home, a Starbucks, or in the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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