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Aug 2009
Telecommuting Just Got Greener
Posted in Home Improvement Parlor at 10:26 pm |

Discuss the subject of telecommuting, and you’re likely to experience a heated discussion. On one side, some people claim that telecommuting is wonderful, there’s no car drive required, no office politics, no clock-watching, no purposeless meetings, no tedious small-talk that offices are notable for. On the other side, others say they just could not produce the self-discipline that’s vital to be a telecommuter. They’d be a bit emabarrassed to send any customers to their house. There’s simply too many distractions to even begin the working day. Finally, the office is fantastic because they feel a need to get away from home life.

Critics of telecommuting now have something that may really make them reconsider their argument : the garden studio. Garden studios (or garden offices) are built in your own garden, isolated from your home. A garden studio offers a chance to get work done in a calm, creative surrounding, with greenery viewable from your office windows, and a quiet venue to hold get togethers.

The idea that the garden office is separate from your household is a crucial one. It gives you an opportunity to escape from domesticity to work. Utilizing the web and VOIP, you can also very easily get a separate telephone number purely for the garden office.

Think about other advantages :-

- They are environmentally friendly : the travel from household to garden office uses only human footprints (as opposed to carbon footprints).
- That tiny journey saves you a huge amount of fuel costs, and may allow for the possibility that your family needs just one car.
- You can conduct business anytime. Creative juices don’t automatically flow from 9-5PM, so if you have a new idea, or simply desire to complete a job in good time, walk into your garden office.
- It’s a comfortable, incandescent, natural surrounding. No glaring lights, grey walls and non-specific background-noise a normal office has.

Garden offices can recoup their costs in merely a few years, and repayments on a loan for a garden studio can be similar, or cheaper than, renting office space.

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