What is work from home?
Working from home refers to two common options:
- Fully remote work - when the employee performs all duties outside the employer’s territory (Article 312 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation talks about this).
- Working with a flexible schedule is when an employee appears at the employer’s office at an agreed time to resolve individual work issues, and the rest of the time works at home. (Note that the Labor Code of the Russian Federation does not contain a definition of “free schedule”, but it does contain the already mentioned Article 312 and Article 102, which describes a “flexible schedule when working hours are determined by agreement of the parties”).
In the accounting environment, the second option is more common. The so-called visiting accountant. This is due to the specifics of accounting duties - working with primary paper records, signing documents, etc.
Home working has a number of benefits for the employee. Give a chance:
- plan your working hours independently and do not waste time traveling to and from work every day (which is very valuable, for example, for large cities);
- cooperate with several employers;
- combine work and solving everyday issues (which is especially important, for example, for women with small children).
Workers not in the office, but at home are also quite beneficial for the employer:
- there is no need to organize workplaces, working and rest conditions, or compensate for travel expenses;
- You can hire specialists of the required level even if they are located in another region and cannot come to the office every day. And if such a specialist lives in a place that is important for the employer (for example, not far from a key client in another city), hiring a remote worker will allow you to significantly save on business trips or organizing a branch.
When you're tired of offices
The specifics of hired work have changed in recent years.
The ergonomics of workplaces is developing: there are rest areas, new methods of organizing work are being created. Employers try to do everything to ensure that the company works for results. One of the requirements for survival is competitiveness in the market, which can only be achieved with properly motivated employees. And, of course, this wave of transformations could not bypass our country. Slowly, breaking through the coral reef of stereotypes, the employee can no longer only sit comfortably in the office, where he (often) has all the conditions, but also in another place. Moreover, this place can be anywhere, it all depends only on imagination and technological equipment. A new wave of workers with a different list of life priorities are called freelancers. Sort of free workers. Are they really free? Of course, freedom implies responsibility for one's actions. And responsibility makes us a leader: a person who makes his own choices and is fully responsible for his results.
