Due to COVID-19 businesses suffered the most, but work from home changed the whole scenario and helped many people for balancing their productivity and mental health.

Work from home is also known as Telecommuting. Working from home is encountering a genuine increase in opting-in not only in India but, also throughout the world. 

More people want the flexibility, comfort, and practicality of not needing to travel to the office every day. 

Not heading off to the workplace can offer you striking chances to build up a superior work-life balance, and to tailor your own working day. 

Benefits of Work From Home jobs

Well, we all will agree with the statement that “COVID-19 forced companies all over the world to send their employees home to work virtually”, working from home had a big turning point at this time. Numerous individuals started working from home due to the current ongoing situation of COVID-19 Pandemic. Even the companies who do not have the “work from home” policy had given the work from home opportunities to their employees.

Magnificently, work from home benefits everyone. It is not only beneficial for the employees but for the companies also.

Here are some of the aspects that clarify working from home benefits from the employee and company point of view –

• Your Schedule Can Be Your Own – One can have flexible schedule/timings while working at home. If you need to work for particular hours, you can be sure that you should have some break in between your work that you can use as much as you want. Even if you have just some minutes, you can do something that just wouldn’t be possible to perform in a traditional office.
• You Can Learn More and Become More Independent – You can learn more by investing your time in learning new things and upgrading yourself. And you can also end up with some new skills simply because you need them to work well remotely. 
• You’ll Save Money – Working from home will definitely fill up your pockets as this leads to cutting the cost of traveling from home to your workplace. And you can also save on food prices, because if you work from home, you can conveniently cook your own lunch and coffee.
• Limit Absences – Telecommuting limits the employee to take the leave as everybody is working from home. This cuts short the chances of taking oneself off from the work.
• Increase Productivity – Investing time in upgrading yourself helps a person in increasing their productivity. While working from home an employee would show up their skills.
• Cost Reduction – Giving employees the work from home opportunity, leads to a reduction in the cost of the workplace. Telecommuting helps reduce operating costs, cash in on the appeal factor, and boost the bottom line.

Challenges During Work From Home

No traveling expenses. No managers or heads are looming behind you. Nobody is taking your lunch from work. Work from Home is wonderful. But it’s not without its challenges.

Any individual who works distantly as a remote worker or from home maintaining their own business is very difficult to maintain or to run the business. As it’s not all rainbows and unicorns every time.

• Getting distracted by Everything – Doing work from home is not an easy job at all. Adjusting to a new workspace is very challenging — especially when the workspace involves kids, pets, TV, snacks, or a little of a nap!
• Annoying Sound of your phone within minutes – It is one of the main challenges occurring in work from home as communication is a common aspect of a business. Without Communication, the business can’t run. Communication can be complicated under the most favorable circumstances, however, when you’re not in the proper workspace, you need to deliberately impart things you presumably never even considered.
• Dealing with Housemates – Work from Home is not an easy task at all. You have to deal with your housemates (family or roommates). It is one of the biggest challenges that anybody could face.
• Interrupting Doorbells – Imagine you are in a meeting with your boss and all of a sudden your doorbell interrupts in between the meeting! How bad your day is going to be, only you can imagine that.

So, Work from Home has both pros and cons depending upon the situation because one thing may be a blessing for somebody or maybe a curse for someone.