Working from Home is a viable future option for SMEs

Whenever an entrepreneur or even an employee states that they are working from home, it leaves one with a bad impression of a lazy person or someone engaging in a fishy kind of business.

Contrary to popular belief workplace flexibility can be of benefit to both a company and employees through increased productivity and motivation respectively.

The practice of requiring employees to report to work from eight to five; Monday to Friday is an outdated practice that was borrowed from the industrial revolution and does not appreciate 20th century technological  and best practice improvements.

The practice is not cognizant of the counterproductive effects it has on the productivity of employees who spend hours upon hours in traffic jams, get distracted with countless not productive conversation, long lunch breaks among many other instruction. You would actually realize that working from home makes a person work their actual full shift in a day.

On the other hand the company would be saving cost in terms of reduced office space, reduced stress related resignation which increases recruitment cost and would gain from highly motivated employees.

SMEs must discard the negative connotation related to working from home and adopt it as a competitive tool for business.