How comfortable is it working in your PJs while working remotely? (W11:D2) Debt Free Millionaire

Simplified Explanation: Working remote means to work from home, or some other location, instead of at your office. Remote workers have always had a place to go, such as the library, Starbucks, and remote offices, but during the COVID pandemic, they all had to return home and work from there. Remote workers are also known for working as they travel the world. Imagine trying to find internet connections in third world countries so you can do your work, but people do it all the time. There is less need for an actual office anymore. 

Real Life: Since the COVID pandemic, businesses have learned that they do not need to lease large buildings to house their work. Most companies had to move their employees home, for a time. Grocery stores, hospitals, and other essential businesses kept their employees working, to service those in need (most of the time), but those who were not essential, and didn’t require contact with their customers, were pushed to work from home. So, there are really three types of remote workers:

1. Pandemic or Emergency Relocation: During COVID, we worked from home. According to scientists, these types of outbreaks will happen again, and more frequently in the future. In order to stop the spread, the U.S. Government locked down the country, economy, and made everyone who could keep their job work from home. The promise was that if we stayed locked down for 4 months, while we let the hospitals slowly increase their emergency beds, we would then be released “back to normal.” People went home to work. Two years later, some states are just still mandating masks.
   
   Businesses are now realizing that, if they could work remotely for a year, why not continue it (since they had to make new procedures that worked remotely, and now their company is as effective as ever, and saving money)?
2. World Travelers: People have desired to travel the world for long periods of time; yet, they had to afford their ventures. For years now, workers have been able to travel to some very remote areas, and continue their work from their laptops, in their hotel rooms, or the local café. These were the remote workers before Pandemic Remote Working became a thing. They did need a few things to make this work. They had to make sure that their companies were okay with this, that they had all the equipment needed to accomplish this work, and be well versed in the laws of the countries they were traveling through. Some have strict laws, that if you are working from their country, you need to pay them taxes. Most traveling workers don’t listen to these rules, though, and most don’t even know about them. They reserve less expensive housing, plan out access to food and other essentials, and find internet connections wherever they travel, so they can always stay connected with their home office. This takes some work, but could be fun. I have never tried this, but you can learn more by searching “Remote World Traveling” on our website Topical Search. 
3. Work convenience: My current business, as I work on this book, teaches history. As I grew my team, during the Pandemic, we decided we didn’t need an office. Instead, we all worked remotely, during the pandemic, and afterwards. We have a goal to become the first Fortune 500 to work completely remotely. It is convenient for all of my employees/contractors, and for myself. For one thing, my employees all work on their own schedule; they work from the convenience of their own home, without having to commute, or even dress in business attire. They even get to eat leftovers in their fridge each day, so less food goes to waste (if they so choose). This is the life of a 9 - 5PM worker.

Now that the world has seen that we can work from home, “the genie is out of the bottle.” In other words, people have experienced increased flexibility, and less stress. 

New types of remote workers are developing, including stay-at-home parents, who are now becoming remote workers while watching their kids; medical needs patients are now able to be remote workers; and even disabled or those with special needs are having an easier time being hired from their homes or co-ops. The future of work has now changed forever, but there are some negatives.

How to overcome the negatives: There are plenty of negatives out there, but for both the employees and employers, this normally has more positives than negatives. The struggle is to overcome the negatives, with preventative measures. Here are some of the negatives, and how to overcome them:

Worker’s health may decrease – Because you don’t need to go into an office, some workers become lazier than before, and less motivated to get out and exercise. Decreased health decreases productivity, and now that they can work from home while they are sick, they are less likely to work to their full potential. When employees get less motivated to workout, they are less effective in the office. It has been proven, that those who are more motivated to workout and eat healthy are more efficient in the office. Statistics show that employees who eat healthy are 25% more likely to have higher job performance. The same survey also found that employees who exercise for at least 30 minutes, three times a week, are 15 percent more likely to have higher job performance.

So how do you combat this? Employers who create healthy living usually have more effective and efficient employees. There are programs that health insurance companies have created or 3rd parties they have teamed up with to incentivize the employees to exercise on their own to keep them healthy. Employers and insurance companies have found that they save more money the healthier their employees are.

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