Just pay attention when you visit your local parade of homes this year. Home offices are now standard features in many new homes. Once destined to set up shop in the basement, dining room, kitchen, etc., home offices are now just part of the floor plan.
StartupJournal tells us that this was not always the case, however.
“(M)any white-collar telecommuters and self-employed professionals used to go to great lengths to hide the fact that they worked from home. They would change the word apartment to suite in their address. They borrowed conference rooms from friends for meetings with clients. They even had other people leave the outgoing message on their answering machine to give the impression of having a secretary. A barking dog, a honking car or a crying child while they were on the phone would leave them wide-eyed and white-knuckled until they were sure no one had noticed.”
But, now working at home is common. In fact, it could even be considered chic.
“These days, however, 25 million people in the U.S., or 19% of those in nonagricultural jobs, work from home at least occasionally, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The practice has become socially acceptable and even desirable.”
The big caution as we’ve talked about more than once before at this site: set boundaries between work and non-work in the home!
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