{"id":2112,"date":"2015-10-28T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T09:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2016-02-04T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:36:47","slug":"working-from-home-is-it-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/working-from-home-is-it-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Working from home &#8211; is it for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday we looked at whether working from home could be killing the day job &#8211; the theory being that not getting up, out and into the office somehow made our work seem meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, check out <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/is-working-from-home-ruining-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is working from home ruining work?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And while we would never fully endorse such as suggestion, it is true that working from home isn&#8217;t necessarily for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>So, are you cut out to work from home? Read on to find out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Working from home<\/h2>\n<p>To successfully work from home you need a few staples &#8211; a job that allows it, the technology to do it and, crucially, the aptitude to do it.<\/p>\n<p>So you work in an office, you have a laptop to do your work from home and you can check into meetings via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/conference-call\" target=\"_blank\">conference call<\/a>. You even have a room at home that you&#8217;ve converted into an office &#8211; so far so good.<\/p>\n<p>Your boss is also happy with the set up as it&#8217;s saving company overheads and the theory is it&#8217;ll make you happier and more productive.<\/p>\n<h3>Is it for you?<\/h3>\n<p>Then the potential stumbling blocks come along, to find out whether you&#8217;re cut out to work from home you need to ask yourself the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you\u00a0easily distracted?<\/li>\n<li>Do you need hands on help from others to do your job?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have trouble motivating yourself?<\/li>\n<li>Do you struggle to structure your day without guidance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Answer &#8216;yes&#8217; to all of these, there&#8217;s a good chance working from home isn&#8217;t for you?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out all the pros and cons of remote working, check out this great infographic below from <a href=\"http:\/\/office.needa.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">NeedaOffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And feel free to leave us your comments&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2113 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WFH.png\" alt=\"WFH\" width=\"600\" height=\"4660\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday we looked at whether working from home could be killing the day job &#8211; the theory being that not getting up, out and into the office somehow made<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/working-from-home-is-it-for-you\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Working from home &#8211; is it for you?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,27],"tags":[29,15,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}