So my last few blogs have been talking about some of the advantages of working from home. Well here’s another one.

My husband has a very short attention span. He knows it - he’s the first to admit it. He gets very easily distracted - especially when he’s trying to avoid working on some hard project. He’s also an occasional telecommuter; he works from home about once/week.

Well today he worked from home and was amazed at how much he accomplished. He didn’t have his usual plethora of meetings (which is why he chose this day to work at home) and half-way through the day, his only meeting was canceled.  Hmm - maybe something to do with the impending holiday season and coworkers on vacation early? Anyway, at the end of the day he looked at me and said, “Gee honey - I can’t believe how much work I got done today. I broke through a wall on a big project I’ve really been struggling with forever. I don’t how I did it!”

Hmm - was it magic? Did Santa’s elves come and give him a bit of assistance? No, more likely it was his ability to sit down and work the whole day without any interruptions from coworkers swinging by his desk to ping him with a question, chat about the latest sales at Fry’s Electronics, or drag him off to join them for a cup of coffee. This is one of the many advantages of telecommuting - the ability to have a large chunk of time to sit down and focus on some particular piece of work. No, your meetings won’t go away. But in between meetings you can turn off your IM if you need to for a few hours and crank through that roadblock you’ve been banging your head against!

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