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It’s not exactly a new idea this, arguably common choice, to work from home. As such, one would suppose that seeing an opportunity, residential products, services, design and even homes would have started to adapt to the ever increasing needs of a swelling body of prospective customers who want to work from home. These people who are working in an Internet Business through online jobs have a requirement for an setting that suits their lifestyle and their work needs too.

It’s true, there are a number of products on the market that are made for those people who Work From Home but it’s fair to say that the offer is patchy and it takes a level of skill in construction, IT and ergonomics to generate a suitable domestic setting from which one could run an internet organisation. Most people only manage to offer a small amount of the facilities needed to be comfortable and dynamic.

The brief for a domestic office set up should be generally similar to that of a normal office or corporate workspace. A resident employee requires power, data and a place to sit and a surface to work on as a bare minimum. Add into that the requirement for social interaction, ad hoc meetings, collaboration and areas for detailed working and the brief starts to look very similar.

The easy and least productive solution to meeting these requirements is to provide a desk, seat, laptop, telephone and data cable. On the face of it these items of kit will provide the necessary vehicle in (or on, or through) which people can deliver their output. The real question is how does one provide for the rest of the criteria and how do we use advances in construction and IT to support the requirements for people who work in Online Jobs?

Firstly, let’s tackle the workplace itself. Does it need to be a desk? In a ordinary domestic situation would a desk be a fitting piece of furniture ? Technology gives us laptops and telephone headsets and the capability to work anywhere on any fittings. Add to that wireless printing and a web cam and really the office, as was, is now built entirely around the person as opposed to a location.

Of course, in these days of corporate responsibility, the idea of using a laptop for long periods of time would give Human Resource and Insurance teams a problem, but the truth is that what we have through technology is a new idea and what we would expect to see is new furniture designs to solve the ergonomic issues.

Secondly, there is the subject of privacy, noise and environmental comfort. A voice conference in a apartment full of playing children is not conducive to productive work. Will we begin to see new homes provided with separate space for working? Possibly provided as an extension, a loft or even a stand alone unit in the garage.

Whatever the solutions the market is there already and the design industry has yet to react to it.

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