Advantages working from home.
- Reduces unnecessary travel to the place of work
- Reduces traveling expense (i.e. saves traveling time, risk and cost)
- There is less stress due to commuting inconveniences such as traffic jams
- Reduces office space, equipment and cost
- Extends working hours
- Suitable for people with disabilities, because they are able to overcome the barrier of not
being able to commute to an office
- People can live where they choose without the worry of having to move towns and break up social & family networks in order to find suitable employment.
Disadvantages working from home
- Lack/ unavailability of appropriate facilities to allow the work to be done
- There is poor security on home offices
- Privacy threats
- Lack of control and supervision. The workers have to be able to motive themselves to work
without supervision
- There is possible delegation of duties to unauthorized persons
- Isolated employees may be exploited in an environment where they can’ t easily get support from co- workers
Kavungya answered the question on June 5, 2019 at 09:43
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