Work from home vs Work from office in IT jobs

The concept of Work from home has gained huge popularity specially during the covid times. Most of the companies has to suddenly change their working mode as work from home, due to the impact of covid-19 . To know about the difference between work from home and work from office we has to look through two perceptions, the employee perception and the company’s perception. Because there will be huge difference between either of theirs perceptions due to several factors which impact them. 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORK FROM HOME VS WORK FROM OFFICE: 

Employees productivity: In case of Work from home(WFH), the employees are used to their home place which will boost up their energy and increases employees productivity. In case of work from office, most of the employees lack their motivation on their way of journey to the office but some are used for work from office. 

Time: In case of work from home, the employees they do not have fix time they can do it after lunch before lunch anytime but they have to finish the work with a certain period of time. But in case of work from office they have specific time boundation so within that time they have to finish their own work. 

Financial factor: In work from home, employees can save their money. Not only the employees but also for the company they also can save a lot as most of the employees work from homes it can help the company to save their working costs, maintenance cost-and power. But in case of work from office, employees travelling expenses and also puts lot of effort in office. 

Fresher’s guidance: A drawback in case of work from home is that when a fresher is hired he cant looked after the trained employees. The fresher has to learn all the work virtually. So he may not perform well in some works. In case of work from office the fresher has been up under a trainer where he can get good knowledge of work practically . 

Communication channels: In case of work from home sometimes wifi or internet issue can be found hence can effect the company’s work and also effects the performance of the business. In case of work from office, there would be proper communication or discussion hence can help the work to grow and can be done easily. 

Team building: In work from home it can not be easy to build a team and manage them virtually. In the work from office the Manager can easily lead and can find any flaws and rectify them. 

Team coordination: In case of work from home it is very difficult to coordinate the team . As some of them will be offline some are online so it is difficult to manage virtually. In case of work from office all the team members will be gathered at free times and spend their together which improves team coordination. 

When we compare either of the working concepts work from home has many drawbacks than that of work from office. Office work can be done properly at office only somehow it cannot be done at home as it can create many disturbances from family. Though work from home has many flexibility.