My BFF works from home and does the patient scheduling for one of our larger hospitals. She’s one of many. She’ll be retiring in another year or so and is also battling MS so this works well for her at this point in her life.
When she was a Mom To Four, she worked from home selling Tupperware and Husband watched the kids in the evenings when she had to go out. She was way ‘up there’ in the echelons of their sales force. She is incredibly organized and efficient in all that she does. And she’s funny as h#ll, LOL! The kids are all college educated (with USEFUL degrees) and are terrific young adults.
Husband also works from home; he sells insurance.
Amazingly, they haven’t killed one another. Yet. ;)
So, working from home is perfect if you have the right skill set and actually WANT to do the work.
Exactly.
I know a dispatcher who works from home covering a rather large area. It works because he works. The line will be answered and what ever service you need will be dispatched.
The person before.... not so much.
I am not against remote work, used to do it myself long before there were even half the stuff there was now to make it easier.
The square root of the people in any office do over half the work. And that is with the boss looking over their shoulder. With the entire office working remotely it is closer to 80% of the work. And that just does not work.
So much of it is personality. I worked remotely for years when my son was little, and when my company decided to stop remote work, I went into business for myself and made a lot more $. I am extremely self-motivated and focused and I do my best work when alone. My daughter in law and son are similar. My hubby and son are not this way - they thrive in group settings surrounded by people.
I’m guessing HR has a tough job figuring out who has the makeup to work remotely well. I’m sure not everyone is good at it. 🤷♀️