5 Reasons to Kill the Home Office
Working at home started out great, but if it’s starting to lose its luster you need to move beyond the home office.
5 Reasons to Leave Your Home Office
Here are five reasons why it’s time to move beyond your home office:
1. Distractions Must Die
Take the dog outside, load the dishwasher, change the laundry—the distractions of working at home are endless. There’s always something else to do that isn’t work. It’s even worse when the kids get home from school. Or if your TV is anywhere near your work space and you get sucked into the latest streaming hit.
Distractions will be the death of you. Before someone commits a capital offense, it’s time to move your business out of the home office.
2. Be More Professional
OK, working in your pajamas is great. Until it’s not. We’ve all reveled in the relaxed atmosphere of working from home. But then it goes too far. Five minutes saved by not getting dressed turns into living in your PJs, and then you’re reluctant to leave the house entirely. Suddenly you’re veering into hermit territory.
A Zoom meeting with a professional top and lack of bottoms is just asking to be the bad kind of viral star. It’s time to get out of the home office. Upgrade your office, upgrade your business.
3. Separate Home and Work
Work bleeds into your personal life enough without your desk being 30 feet from your bed. Boundaries, people! Your mental health needs a clear delineation between home and work. Blame it on your therapist, if you must, but it’s time to leave work at work and home at home.
4. Upgrade Your Networking
Networking opportunities do not abound in the home office. You won’t be getting any leads from your cat. Business is social. Yes, you can do a lot in solitude, but you can do even more when you’re rubbing shoulders with actual people you’re not related to.
Upgrade your opportunities by moving beyond the home office.
5. Time to Grow
The home office is perfect for a small business that’s going to remain small. If it’s forever going to be you and a desk against the world, that’s fine. But if you have bigger dreams, it might be time to get a bigger space. Grow beyond the home office and welcome employees, partners, and more revenue.
Where to Next: Home Office to Coworking
Leaving the home office behind can be a big step, but it doesn’t have to be. Coworking makes that next step easier. You’re not committing to an office lease. You’ve got flexibility to try it out and see how it goes.
Take that step beyond the home office and try coworking. Schedule a tour at Evolve and see if it’s the right next step for you.