Our lives are made up of many parts, including relationships, health (both physical and mental), emotional well-being, and of course, work. A balanced life would be one where none of these elements are pulling you too hard in one direction, away from the others.
There are pros and cons to working from home, and finding ways to mitigate the cons is vital for both productivity and wellbeing.
Now that many of us are working from home on a more permanent basis, we need to re-evaluate our makeshift work from home arrangements
Working from home as an employee and working from home as an individual fall under different tax rules. It doesn’t matter if you’re working off the dining table or have a dedicated home office, no matter where in the house you work, the deductions remain the same.
Let’s look at the benefits of why employers should subsidise their staff when they work from home.
As the virtual workforce expands, we are forced to choose email and other digital forms of communication over the face-to-face connections. While it’s certainly convenient and gives us more work flexibility, there is a downside to the increase in emails that comes with working remotely. According to researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and … Read more
Working from home certainly comes with its challenges, from setting up a workstation, missing out on daily catchups with colleagues over coffee, and familiarising yourself with the sometimes-endless video calls. Raise your hand if you’ve ever been on one of these video calls and spotted a pet peeking into the frame, cats climbing all over … Read more
2020 will be a year we will all remember for the rest of our lives, the year of COVID-19 and the sudden rise in working from home. No one could have predicted that enjoying a meal at our favourite restaurant would go away, and that hanging out with friends would become a thing of the … Read more
Courtesy of the Coronavirus more of us are working from home than ever before, leaving a lot of questions around what’s going to be claimable. So, what exactly can you claim come tax time? Working from home means either you or your company will need to spend some money on essential items for your new … Read more
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