| I have always worked remotely. My company works this way, my employees work remotely. IMHO it is not hard or difficult per se, but you need to design your company around it, like with other things. It is also an area that needs more study in order to develop fully. Probably if I had a conventional company and I had to transform or convert it to remote, it wouldn't work. There would be vested interest against the conversion on some people, some people would not believe it is not possible(people tend to believe that if you don't look busy to others you are not working) or managers will fear their employees slacking. When you create a company that makes money from day one remotely, you have not this problem, as you organize around it and it is not optional. In some ways it is weird. If you go out of your house to get your children from school because you did not spend 1 hour commuting to work, 1 returning from it, society could believe you are not working at all. They are often surprised to see you have money, and much more money than they have. But I suppose it is not different from an old farmer watching people sitting in a chair in the city call it "work". |
Oh man, I run into this constantly. I think my in-laws may have finally gotten over it, as they probably figure their daughter couldn't have afforded three international vacations this year on her own.
I don't tell people I've cut my hours back to 20/wk. Most of the people I know just aren't ready to hear "I work less and still make more than you."