Work From Home Couple

I don’t like to rub it in the faces of my friends too much, but sometimes I can’t help it: Working from home beat the pants off working in an office.

Need proof? Spend the week in Chicago, where I live, during a fierce round of snowstorms. Then you’ll see. We’ve had some nasty winter weather this week: Sub-zero temperatures, strong winds and snow, of course, lots and lots of snow. It’s added up to some extremely long commute times.

I have a friend who lives 12 miles from his office. One day this week it took him 2-and-a-half hours to get home. I’m sure he was thrilled, cooped up in that car listening to some lame radio station, that Chicago will have a White Christmas this year.

Meanwhile, that same night, my commute was exactly zero minutes. I was working from home, and my commute meant walking from the kitchen to my office, about three feet away. Can’t beat that.

Yes, there are some pitfalls of working from home: Sometimes you forget to stop working. Other days, your personal life and business life blends together. Others often fail to take your career seriously because you don’t drive into an office every day.

But those are minor nuisances compared with the trials most of my office-working friends face. And those snowstorms this week and last provided just one more example.

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