Imagine a world devoid of the daily commute, where the working day wasn’t bound by the nine-to-five, and office politics were a thing of the past – imagine a world where you could work from home.
Now imagine if the reality wasn’t quite the carefree employment existence you’d imagined – the commute has been replaced with a lie-in, the working day stretches well into the evening, an the office politics are replaced by the distraction of daytime TV.
You see, not everyone can cut it when working from home, it can take a lot of drive and discipline that you just don’t need when working in an office.
So before you hand in that remote working request, work out whether you can actually cope with working from home…