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Garden Offices and Working from home
Posted by Sales Service on 29 August 2013 02:17 PM
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More and more people are choosing to work from home, currently there are approximately 1.5 million home workers in the UK. Whether you are considering conducting your own small business from home or whether you would be spending some time at the official place of work whilst balancing your home life and family commitments there are several things to consider. Home working does not suit everyone, some people can feel isolated and miss the camaraderie and support of work colleagues, some simply admit to not being very disciplined about knuckling down to the job in hand when distractions such as the television and the kettle are beckoning so close at hand! Spending some time in the office and some time working from home can be the ideal solution, a few days spent in the office may help you appreciate the peace and quiet to tackle things which need you to concentrate on which you can achieve with a dedicated home office. With technology improving all the time, broadband and wireless internet connections, communication between the office and home has allowed many people to work from home just a few days of the week to fit in with family commitments and to cut down on long and stressful commuting problems. Of course if you are running your own business you may have no options, office space can be hard to find, expensive to rent, insure, maintain and make secure. Maybe you have a room within your house which you think may fulfil the purpose, at least initially. This is obviously the cheapest and easiest option but there can be downfalls to this as well. When trying to balance family life with work commitments it can be difficult to lay down the ground rules to children and other family members if you are trying to work off the dining room table with the television blaring in the background and the thud of the bass beat of the latest music download coming through the floorboards of your teenager's bedroom above! An upstairs bedroom can be converted into your office space but if you have house guests it can be a bit of an imposition to have to tidy all that paperwork and rediscover the spare bed lurking somewhere underneath all those Tax Returns paperwork! Here are a few pointers which may help you manage your time and efficiency when working from home:
It may be at this stage that you start considering having some dedicated home office space. Many people feel that by having a designated office makes them more disciplined, when they enter their office they go into work mode and family members find it easier to accept that when Mum or Dad disappears into their office they must be left in peace until they re-emerge (other than to keep you supplied with tea and biscuits at regular intervals!). There are more and more purpose built stand alone buildings now being manufactured to meet the increasing demands for home working and it need not be as expensive as you might initially imagine. Some of the considerations you may need to take into account:-
Armed with the answers to the above questions and any other which pertain to you and your business you will than be able to make more informed choices from the wealth of possible home and garden offices that are available. Taylors Garden Buildings have numerous garden buildings which are either dedicated purpose built home offices designed to be installed and are ready for you to move into and work from within just a few weeks of placing the order, others are log cabins, summerhouses or workshop style buildings which lend themselves to being adapted to suit your individual needs, both aesthetically and from a practicality point of view. Our customer service team are very knowledgeable about the products available and having dealt with numerous enquiries, sales and after sales service over the years they are armed with plenty of useful and pertinent information. We have recently taken on board this trend in working from home and have sourced an excellent range of dedicated, purpose built home offices from Henley Offices. We are very pleased to have become official Agents for Henley Offices. This range of home offices come fully insulated and the price includes installation which is carried out by a team of trained Henley Office installers who can complete the job usually in just one day. There are various options such as various external colours, window and door blinds, carpet (in some models carpet comes as standard) and even a desk and storage system in a choice of two finishes. These home offices have a 5 year manufacturer's guarantee but in reality they have been designed to have a much longer life than this - approximately 20 years! These garden offices can also be taken down and re-assembled by the Henley Offices team of installers if you are moving house and want to take your office with you! Our display model office is fully fitted with carpet, venetian window and door blinds and a multi desk storage system and we have samples of alternative colours etc available for inspection too!
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