Work From Home or Work From Office

 All of us are struggling or coping with this dilemma of working from home or working from the office. Both sides have their advantages and disadvantages.

Working from home provides you the opportunity to be bound in one space without any disturbance. You can do work fully at your own time at your own pace at your own rhythm.

Working from the office you are governed by the timing of the rules and regulations of the office. But you also have all the infrastructure that is required to function in an office space.

When you are working from home you have to create your own resources like a computer, technological infrastructure, and a private room to work in where there is no disturbance.

But here the advantage is that you can work, you can look after the family, adjust to the family timing and the husband and wife can work as a team.

When you are in the office this possibility is not there and the couple is more dependent on staff or in-laws to look after the children.

Both the situations have an advantage if I were to reflect on my choice I definitely would work from the office because for me the physical presence of staff is much more productive or constructive to do the work.

I am still not an online person who is comfortable with online meetings and processes and seminars which are conducted on the computers.

For me, the physical touch and feel of the person are much more important to function rather than online phases.

But each has a different preference it all depends on your comfort with online or offline situations.

When the schools opened and children have to go back to school there was a huge relief on their faces and the parent’s faces.

Hence, emerging the online format can be feasible but otherwise, my preference would definitely be the offline format. 

Author:-Dr. Nayana Shah (Ph.D.)

           Director, Manthan

             Ahmedabad