The benefits of building an office in the garden
Are you considering a new way of working and think that installing an office in the garden might be a suitable option for you? If so, read on, you might just find another reason to take the plunge in 2018.
Ditch the commute, gain time: If you usually drive over 30mins to work you’ve already gained an hour of time each day by switching to a mere stroll down to your office in the garden. That’s a 5 hour gain each and every week. If making the switch permanently this equates to 260 hours of increased productivity a year. Equivalent to 32.5 full (8 hour) days…. let that sink in for a moment…. 32.5 days a year! This is a golden opportunity to claw back more of your essential time to ensure you’re optimally maximising your diary and your efficiency.
Focus on quality: It’s often true that reducing distractions and placing a greater emphasis on a dedicated workspace can provide you with the opportunity to think clearly and work to your highest potential. Of course, it’s a well-known trait of authors and artists to take themselves off to a quiet haven in which to work; the same is true for a plethora of other professionals. Perhaps you need a dedicated office to enable you to get your next project off the ground/write the article you’ve been sitting on for months, draw up a session plan for your healing workshop or prepare that paperwork for your legal case. Whatever you do, if you’re creative and/or need to use your brain to create work which requires peace and quiet, an office in the garden could be the most appropriate solution for you.
Inspired, healthy environments = increased productivity: There have been papers written for eons by environmental psychologists confirming that our environment is absolutely crucial to our productivity. Most commonly termed as ‘Sick Building Syndrome‘ this is a condition affecting office workers, typically marked by headaches and respiratory problems, attributed to unhealthy or stressful factors in the working environment such as poor ventilation. If you’re working from an office in the garden, you are by very definition submerging yourself into your garden and more often than not in a timber-framed building (check that it’s not built with SIPs panels/filled with polurethane) which have been proven to promote greater health benefits than any other building style! Of course, an office in the garden is a micro-eco-building.
Other factors can also come into play such as:
- Potential increase to your property value
- Easier to manage your work/life balance – you’ll be near by in case of family emergencies/to manage the school run
- Beneficial to your pets. Pop back to walk the dog/feed your goldfish at lunch time rather than wait until the end of the working day
- Reduced heating costs – you needn’t heat the whole house if you’re just occupying an office in the garden
If you have any specific questions about how we could assist you with the creation of your dream office in the garden, please do call us on 0161 222 3350 or email info@rotunda.co.uk.
We are always on hand to run through the specification, timescales and build options with you. 2018 is your year, go for it!
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