Work is work, no matter where you do it
Whether you’re a ‘Remote Worker’ or a ‘Work-from-Home’, work is work.
‘Remote Work’ is considered a lifestyle choice, while ‘Work From Home’ (WFH) is usually considered a benefit. Either way, it’s doing your work in a non-traditional way.
Whether it’s remote work or WFH, it is loved by some, loathed by others, and some don’t care because it’s not even something they thought about or could think is possible.
I’m a bit of a hybrid, because most days I’m a Remote Worker and on some days I’m a Work From Home, while on other days, I’m in one of the offices I consider a workplace. As a serial entrepreneur, shareholder, and investor, I don’t have only one work base, I technically have a few — all of which I don’t see very often, because we spend most of our time in our clients’ businesses.
My business model is quite unique, in that I traded building empires, with building networks of freelancers and other small businesses to deliver on my businesses various contracts and projects.
I never really thought about loving or hating this way of working, until I had to think about my business model and what I wanted to achieve, and the people I wanted, to represent BBT. And, then I read an article about Richard Branson’s extreme approach to ‘work from home’ or rather his version of it… but the messaging was not lost on me!
The billionaire works from home 6 months of the year. When he’s not visiting the hundreds of companies within the Virgin Group, he resides on Necker Island and can be found working from his hammock or bathtub.
I kid you not … I did say ‘extreme approach’, didn’t I?
Actually, the story that sticks with me is about how Branson took a very important call from Nelson Mandela who asked his advice about a group of gyms that were going bankrupt. He took this call from his bathtub, and we know the decision that was made in said bathtub.
That became my life goal … to make $Billion decisions talking to world hero leaders, in a bathtub, in my mansion, on my own private island.
But, I hate baths though … I’m more a shower girl! Actually, I’d rather like to make those $billion decisions on my yoga mat, between meditations, with my beloved pooch, Rocket, by my side.
I mean ….
But seriously though, is message is clear : the quality of work, and the end result, is not determined by where the work is done.
In these times of Coronavirus, it doesn’t matter where you are working from, be glad that you are working at all, and still being part of the economy.
Our world is forever changed — the way we think about work will change immensely, even after we return to our lives, post-pandemic.
Where you work does not determine what your output is — YOU determine that!
