So why do people want to work from home? The infamous answer is that you get to work in your pajamas. But really, what’s so great about that? Why do we take such delicious pleasure in working in our nightclothes? Perhaps it makes us feel like we’re not really working (how can it really be working if I’m wearing my bunny slippers)? Or like we’re somehow getting away with something irreverant or inappropriate from a professional, corporate perspective?

In my personal case it’s typically because I have early morning meetings (often 7am) because I work with such a distributed team - I’m in California and my coworkers are spread throughout the US as well as in Europe and other parts of the world. And even if I don’t have a meeting, there’s often some urgent email or other that’s been sitting in my inbox for a while, where I want to get an answer back quickly (especially if it’s for my European coworkers). If I can get online and get some emails out as soon as I’ve rolled out of bed, that helps my team. And of course, then I’m sucked in and end up in my pj’s until 2 or 3pm before I finally hit the shower! Well the good news is if you do that every day, at least you’re still getting a shower roughly once every 24 hours!

There’s many other reasons for telecommuting that have nothing to do with attire -which I’ll explore more as time goes by. Stay tuned for my next posting where I’ll include a picture showing the main reason I telecommute!

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