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Benefits of remote work: Stop wasting your life on the commute

2025-03-24

By Ryan Pratt

 In the near future, everyone will work remotely, including those sitting opposite you.

  

 ——Kevin Kelly

  

 Remote work can not only improve work quality, but also improve job satisfaction.

  

 "No need for an office anymore" is not just a thing in the future - it has happened. Now, it's your turn to step forward and keep up with the times.

  

 The office has long become a "disturbing the factory".

  

 It takes 15 minutes here and 10 minutes there.

  

 Fill in these fragmentary periods of conference calls, meetings, another meeting, or other system-related and actually unnecessary interference matters.

  

 When your working day is cut into a work "fragment", it is simply too difficult to complete a meaningful job.

  

 Being able to stay quietly so that your thoughts are not disturbed is one of the greatest benefits of remote work.

  

 Of course, there are also disadvantages to working outside the office.

  

 The interference will come from other places.

  

 But the point is that these interferences can be controlled.

  

 It won't get in the way, so you can't do anything.

  

 Don't worry about your colleagues hanging out, and don't worry about being asked to attend an unnecessary meeting.

  

 This is your territory, your zone, and it only belongs to you.

  

 Stop spending your life on the commute.

  

 Commuting will increase:

  

 Obesity, insomnia, stress, neck and back pain, high blood pressure, and other stress-related diseases, such as heart disease and depression.

  

 Suppose you drive 30 minutes to work every day, plus 15 minutes to walk to the side of the car and walk into the office.

  

 Then it takes 1.5 hours to go back and forth every day, and 7.5 hours a week.

  

 Considering holidays and vacations, it takes about 300-400 hours on the road every year.

  

 Imagine what you can do if you have 400 more hours a year

  

 Distributed workforce:

  

 There is no need to work in the same place.  

 Work with people in different time zones   

 The flexible working system can meet the needs of everyone, whether it is an early riser, a night owl, or a family-oriented employee who needs to pick up and drop off children during the day.

 If a company takes remote work as the core and efficiently establishes its own working mechanism, it does not even need a fixed schedule.

 This is especially important when work is creative in nature.

 If you are not in a state, there is almost no way to force you into a state.  

 If you don't need to cooperate face-to-face with others, the best way is usually to walk away for a while, do something else, and come back to work when the brain enters the state and the horsepower is full.

  

 IT Collective is a film production and video promotion company headquartered in Colorado (but the company also has employees in New York and Sydney).

  

 When the new film starts shooting, their video editing team will occasionally switch to night work mode, because the work done at night is of the highest quality.

  

 The next day, the editors will work with other team members for a period of time, enough to spend time and know the direction of the next night's work.

  

 As long as they can finish the work, who cares that they have been sleeping all afternoon?

  

 Get rid of the thinking limitations of nine to five.

  

 It may take a little time and practice to master the trick of not working in sync with the team, but it won't be long before you will find that the real important thing is to do a good job, not to stick to the clock.



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