Would you quit a job in favor of a workplace that allows remote and flexible working, designing your day around your work, improve work-life balance, time to explore hobbies, and spend quality time with your family?

The hustle and bustle of working in a big city combined with the heightened stress of commuting eventually take their toll and can increase health problems.

Health Risks Of Long Commutes

Bad weather, traffic jams, lengthy commutes, and accidents can cause stress, anger, and anxiety.

Long commutes can raise cortisol and adrenal levels affecting your health and increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Physical and mental health conditions, chronic headaches, and backaches to sleep disturbances, fatigue, concentration problems, digestive problems like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and high blood pressure can become stronger over time.

If you haven’t worked from home before, start small with a trial run of working remotely 1-2 times a week.

Allow time to see and feel the effects of improving your mental and physical health and money staying in your pocket from not having to fill up your gas tank a couple of times a week.

Saving for that trip to Europe just got easier.

Physically commute to work either biking or walking to get a low-impact workout without spending hours in the gym.

Not only does physical activity improve your health, mood, and brain function, but active participation in creative activities can increase productivity.

Information Communication Technology Tools

Advances in telecommuting technology in the past ten years and companies wanting to save money from overhead costs on renting office space are promoting efficiency, creativity, and productivity by offering remote and flexible working options.

Access and affordability of information communication technology tools (ICT), computers, smartphones, emails, video conferencing, blogs, wikis, instant chat, messaging) enables creativity, teamwork, and collaboration.

Making it possible to work from anywhere and anytime, the same way as in an office environment.

Efficiency and creativity don’t have to be limited to one physical location. With fewer distractions in an open office, constant interruptions, drive-bys from co-workers, lack of privacy, and noisy conversations, when you’re working from home, it is easier to concentrate and stay focused.

What’s in it for you?

Remote workers are less likely to experience burn-out.

A long commute to work of 30 minutes or more is cut-down to 7 seconds or however long it takes to walk up the stairs to your home office.

Change Of Scenery

In case of care needs, flexible working arrangements help employees to remain close to children and partners.

Work-life balance allows you to pursue your interests, hobbies, outings with friends, art, sports, and holistic habits for overall health and wellness.

Making time to embrace nature, work out outdoors, and enjoy leisure time is right for mental and physical health.

How does switching it up to a remote/coffee shop work style, walking, or biking to work remotely sound to you?

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