National Work From Home Day
Today is the first national Work from home day. Up to five million people shunned their daily commute today in order to work from home. In fact, working from home has become more and more popular in recent years with an increase of 600,000 full time home workers in the past decade.
It is estimated that around 3.5 million Brits currently work from home (around 12.5% of the working population), and many more are choosing to tele-work every week. The Southwest is leading the country in this with over 15% working from home.
“The benefits of working from home, even occasionally, are now widely accepted,” said Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK.
“Not only does it reduce the amount of commuting people have to do, enhancing their work-life balance, but many are actually more productive.
“Although many organisations practise the age-old philosophy of ‘presenteeism’ they should open their eyes to the new work ethic spreading across the UK and try out . They may well be surprised.”
Of course, as a Kleeneze distributor I’m very used to working from home. On the odd days when I do need to drive into town during rush hour it only serves to remind me of what’s so great about running a home based business - freedom!