Office vs Work from Home

[Zevi16]

What are the benefits of working/hiring workers in an office to working/or employing a home worker?

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[churnbabychurn]

What are the benefits of working from home?
Really? ? Lol

[Mordyk]

What are the benefits of working from home?
Really? ? Lol

With this flexibility tou may find someone more suitable for the job.

[churnbabychurn]

With this flexibility tou may find someone more suitable for the job.

Sure. I was just loling from an employee perspective.

These days you could probably supervise an employees work remotely, but the level of supervision will not be the same as in person.

[Mordyk]

Sure. I was just loling from an employee perspective.

These days you could probably supervise an employees work remotely, but the level of supervision will not be the same as in person.

Thats the problem.  Employees are way too happy to work frm home...  that says alot

[churnbabychurn]

Thats the problem.  Employees are way too happy to work frm home...  that says alot

I personally work from home Fridays etc. Since my job is very deliverable oriented, my managers are totally fine with it.
Because I alwayd deliver quality on time

So it all depends. I wouldn't recommend it for a new hire though. - How would you know how good the product will be and how much supervision will be needed before working with the person?

[3yummyboys]

From the employee perspective, I think it's hard to stay motivated and be as productive at home. There are more distractions and you have to be more disciplined.

[Zevi16]

And don't forget that one learns alot about the job in the office so some employees would want to start in the office

[satturn]

https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-employees-work-from-home

[shmuelb]

Many people have employees working at home (for example - where I work). It can work great, you can use a clock in/out system on their computer so you and them know exactly how much work they are doing. Obviously you need to find someone you feel you can trust, but that is the same if you are hiring someone to work in an office.

If they are working from home, you can actually benefit from broader availability throughout the day, as opposed to when someone is only working when in office...

For your specific case, it makes sense to hire someone to work at home as you are not set up with an office with other workers, and it can be also uncomfortable, yichud issues etc.

You can pay per month based on x amount of hours and the worker will make sure to do those hours.

As an aside, for your first hire, and all, you must have a contract, with all details specified so know misunderstandings later. For example, do they need to clock out for a snack, Mincha etc. Many templates can be found online.

[sammy n]

From the employee perspective, I think it's hard to stay motivated and be as productive at home. There are more distractions and you have to be more disciplined.

It can be the same the other way around. An example I know someone that gets paid salary and if the person went to the office all the work that would be done would only be done in the office now that work is from home it's done the designated hours but also other work a little before a little after. So the employer gains off the deal and the employee is happy to be at home.

[incendia]

I work from home on an hourly I use Toggl to track time and they make it easy to customize reports so you can get a daily report to see what they have been doing. The desktop App has a setting to take screen shots of everything that you have open for more than 10s.

It can be tricky to know when to punch in and out, and my boss leave it up to my discretion ultimately I think he is happy with the work product he is paying for.

You will need someone that has some smarts about them and wont need hand holding.
You need some sort of IMing service for communication. We used to use Gmail chat but switched to Slack. Skype is good too.

Some questions you should answer at the beginning
Who is paying for what tech?
If you are paying for a computer, how can they use it if they are not clocked in?
Logistically how are you going to pay them ?
How and when will you give feedback and answer questions?
Where do you want them located ?
How often if ever do you want them to come into the home office?
How fast do you expect turn around, This week? This hour? This Minute?
Do you expect them to work a standard day, of can they choose when to work as long as the work gets done?