Those Niggling Illnesses Which Keep You From The Office Are Not An Issue For Those Who Work From Home
Think of the times you have got out of bed, into the bath and out into the cold, in order to turn up at the office, feeling poorly, dosed up with pills. Perhaps it is man flu, doing its rounds of the office, a stomach bug, a really bad cold, whatever, you feel poorly, but do not feel you are ill enough to warrant staying at home. It is, after all, just a cold or stomach bug!
When you do get to the office, your colleagues are less than delighted to see you, confident that they will catch your germs and be ill themselves. They wish you had remained at home, and this is the problem for those who work in an office – should you go to work, or remain at home when you are not well?
If you Work From Home, you do not have this dilemma. If you are feeling run down, you can still go on with your work, without the need to venture from the house, reducing the bother. Running an Internet Business, as I do, all those Online Jobs can be done by use of a laptop and internet connection, without fear of infecting anybody else. Having a cold, flu or stomach bug affects only you. A box of tissues and plenty of cold remedies throughout the day, and the jobs can still be done. Stomach bugs can be dealt with in a similar way.
By the very nature of being able to Work From Home, I am not in contact with as many individuals, so in fact the likelihood of me picking up a cold or stomach bug is greatly reduced. Passing bugs on to other employees just does not happen when you are working at home.
If I feel really ill for part of the day, I can rest for a while, but as soon as I feel a little better, I can return to the Online Jobs which are amassing. The actual disruption to my day through being unwell is not huge. Occasions when I feel too ill to work at all are minimal, and would be days when, if I worked in an office, I would not be well enough to attend work also.
The Internet Business is very accommodating in this way. Because of the very nature of the work involved, opting to start work early in the day and finish early, or start late and finish late, or indeed take a break in the middle of the day are all totally acceptable modes of work. Also, to take one day off can soon be accommodated by working longer hours other days, or even doing a few hours over the weekend, so losing time to ill health during the week can be swallowed up by working other hours.
This would in all likelihood not be the case if you worked in an office. You would no doubt, if you were off work, have to complete a sick note and take the time off as sickness. Any work which were building up during your illness would be awaiting your return, which is why those who work in an office tend to try and minimise time off work due to illness.
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