I thoroughly enjoy remote work, after reading “Your Brain at Work” I learned that the human brain can only realistically make 3 or 4 big decisions in a day.

You read that right, that’s only 3 or 4 decisions in a day! After that, the quality of your decision making is drastically reduced.

A long or stressful commute means you deplete your brain’s energy before you even get to work, you use all your good decision making skills for things such as choosing the right time to leave to get the earlier bus, remembering not to forget your lunch, not crashing into the truck on your right, and finding a place to park because Karen from accounting took your place again.

With remote work you can wake up and start working whilst eating breakfast, and then go take a shower, or walk your dogs, and continue working again. This freedom increases the quality of work and severely increases your work/life balance.

At the end of a work day you don’t feel like I just sold a day of my life I’ll never get back for some lousy cash.

Common excuses bosses use for not allowing remote work:

You’ll just get distracted Communication suffers You need to be in the same room to collaborate Teamwork requires close physical proximity You’ll just do other things instead of work

What they actually mean:

They don’t trust you They don’t trust their own leadership skills(if they actually have any) They feel in control when you’re physically there

So basically, everyone is pretty sure that communication suffers when working remotely. Even though a majority of companies still don’t know to conduct meetings, and just because you’re talking for 5 hours doesn’t mean you’re communicating!