Building your working week – The PRO’S to installing an office in the garden

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Tired of the commute/office?  Maybe it’s time to think about working from home, at least occasionally.

Here are a few reasons why you might benefit from working from a home office.

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.

More time with family.  Working when your family are otherwise occupied, and spending quality time with them when they’re not.

No dress code.   Working in your Pyjamas?  Why not?!

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.

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.  Every professional requires a dedicated office to enable them to work to their greatest potential. 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.

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.