Working from home..

Its rare that I work from home, coz. working from home is not well penetrated in Indian way of working yet, and I find it a burden to carry my laptop home everyday. Today I did, and this was a planned one. The planned palkhi (a religious procession once a year) route was right next to where my office is, road block notice released by Pune traffic control was to affect my way directly, thus- I had a reason to convince my manager. He allowed me to work from home today.

Although I sincerely worked for 8 hours, I happened to discover a few advantages I can derive by occasionally working from home:

• Avoid the traffic chaos (this obviously is the major one...)
• Avoid going through that pathetic Nagar Road and the depressing Kharadi- Mundhwa bypass (yuck...that area sucks. :(... )
• I can be at ease, wearing my bermuda shorts at work
• Spend more time playing with my baby niece
• Have a complete meal at lunch (which only happens n weekends...)
• Ocassionally watch television, work with music turned on and loud
• Chat on Gtalk, without worrying if my manager watches out..
• Spend more "official" time on Facebook
• Maybe even have a short nap after lunch (although I've not tried yet, but seems a good option :)..)
• Speak on my phone without rushing to search an empty meeting room
• Be flexible with my time and actions, as no one is watching :)

This list can keep on updating, maybe my readers suggest a few more which I can implement next time I work from home. I only pray my manager doesn't read this post, I may have a tough time convincing him next time. :)