Has Domestic Interior Design Ideology Caught Up With The Internet Organisation Explosion?
It’s not exactly a new idea this, arguably common choice, to work from home. As such, one would imagine that seeing an opportunity, residential products, services, design and even homes would have begun to adapt to the ever increasing requirements of a swelling body of potential customers who would like to work from home. These people who are working in an Internet Business through online jobs have a need for an atmosphere that suits their everyday life and their work needs too.
It’s true, there are a number of products on the market that are aimed at those people who Work From Home but it’s fair to say that the offer is scrappy and it takes a level of skill in construction, IT and ergonomics to create a suitable domestic atmosphere from which one could run an internet firm. Most people only manage to provide a small amount of the facilities necessary 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 worker 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, chair, pc, telephone and data connection. 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 developments in construction and technology 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 suitable piece of furniture ? Technology gives us laptops and telephone headsets and the ability to work anywhere on any furniture. Add to that wireless printing and a web cam and really the office, as was, is now built wholly 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 an issue, but the truth is that what we have through technology is a new idea and what we would expect to see is new furniture ideas to solve the ergonomic issues.
Secondly, there is the matter of privacy, noise and environmental comfort. A voice conference in a home full of playing children is not helpful to productive work. Will we begin to see new homes provided with remote space for working? Possibly dealt with as an extension, a loft or even a stand alone unit outside.
Whatever the ideas the market is there already and the construction industry has yet to react to it.
