522An Introduction to Garden Studios and Telecommuting
posted on July 26th, 2009
Talk about the topic of working from home, and you’re likely to enter a heated discussion. In one half of the debate, people claim that telecommuting is promotes productivity, you have no commute, no lost time by just having to be in one place for a set time, no purposeless group meetings, no boring chit-chat that offices are well-known for. But on the other side of the debate, others say they just couldn’t muster up the self-control that’s necessary to work at home. They might be slightly disinclined to send any customers to their household. There’s simply too many distractions to even get started. Finally, the company office is fantastic because they want to escape the house.
Well now there’s an option for these critics of home working : garden studios. Garden studios (or garden offices) are built in your garden, isolated from your home. A garden studio offers a chance to get work done in a composed, free thinking environment, with greenery viewable from your office windows, and a quiet place to hold get togethers.
The fact that the garden studio is separate from your house is a vital one. It offers you an opportunity to escape from domesticity to business life. Using the net and VOIP, it’s uncomplicated to get a separate telephone number only for the garden office.
Think about other advantages :-
- The build costs for garden studios are reasonable when you consider rental costs for offices.
- They’re environmentally friendly : the journey from house to garden takes only natural footprints (as opposed to carbon footprints).
- You can work anytime of the day. Creative juices don’t mechanically run from 9-5PM, so if you have a new plan, or simply want to complete a project in good time, walk into your garden office.
- It’s a comfortable, well-lit, natural environment. No sick building syndrome here. No glaring lights, grey walls and non-specific drone a typical office has.
Garden studios can recoup their costs fairly quickly, and repayments on a loan for a garden office are often comparable, or cheaper than, renting office space.
