Steve Jobs once said: “There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.”
His words have validity, but they also point to a dead end in our current work—and church—happenings.
Between 2005–2012, research indicates that telecommuting rose 79 percent, triggering much discussion surrounding the topic of office productivity and creativity in relation to remote-working conditions.
The listed benefits:
- decreased traffic
- greater opportunity for out-of-the-box thinking
- more flexibility in scheduling
- an enhanced work-life balance
- greater ownership of personal time management
- increased trust and accountability
- and fewer office interruptions.
The disadvantages cited were just as vast.
While greater flexibility in schedule might allow employees the time to exercise and tend to their health, some employees were found to be increasingly sedentary. Communication seemed to suffer from a lack of face-to-face exposure. And digital friendships were found to be harder to craft than when granted in-person opportunities for connection.
Have you struggled with working from home? Churching from home?
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The one thing you can do to be better at your job
In “Is Working Remotely Sapping Your Creativity?” Jamie Hodari offers: “The research has shown that if you want to increase your engagement and performance at work, there’s one thing to do that trumps almost everything else: make a close friend at the office. People with a best friend in the workplace are seven times as likely to report being engaged in their work. Likewise, people with at least three vital friends at work are 96% more likely to be satisfied with their…
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