This article is for those of you who are working from home right now, and it’s purpose is to show you what you could gain from moving out of home into a co-working space in the city centre.
This is part 1 of 2. Read part two: 15 Reasons Why Co-Working In The City Centre Is Awesome.
I worked from home for 3.5 years. I have now been in a co-working space for 10 weeks, and now I realise what I was missing out on.
5 Reasons Why Working From Home Sucks
1. You get lonely and depressed
Are you the type of person who has the need for face to face time with other humans built into you? I think most of us do.
A day full of phone calls, emails, Twitter, Facebook – all these interactions don’t satisfy this need.
Ever wonder why you feel glum or depressed when you’ve spent long periods alone? It’s because interacting with other people releases endorphines into your brain and make you feel good.
Solitary confinement is the worst punishment that prisons have in their arsenal for a reason. It breaks even the most solitary of people. So why imprison yourself?
2. Your ideas are smaller
Let’s face it, are your best ideas the ones that you come up with on your own, or the ones that you refine again and again after you bounce them other other people?
3. You get distracted
No one might be walking behind you and bust you for watching porn or pointless YouTube videos or reading the news.
4. You a turning weird
Without frequent social interaction you’ll develop weird personality traits.
And the worst thing is that you won’t know that you’re turning weird.
5. You work too much (or not enough)
Working at home you’ll either work too much (eg checking your email as soon as you wake at 5.30am, or at 10pm at night), or at the weekends at the expense of family or social time.
Or you’ll work too little and give in to distractions or procrastination.
What Do You Think?
Disagree? Agree? Let me know in the comments below.
*All statistics used in this article were made up.
This is part 1 of 2. Read part two: 15 Reasons Why Co-Working In The City Centre Is Awesome.