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Home office swap |
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Score
84%
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18 votes,
Feasibility
86%
Originality
90%
Humour
79% |
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The Problem:
Lowered productivity working at home. Invasion of business into home life, or household distractions into office.
The Social Invention:
These days, many people work at home in a very small one- and two-person business. This presents many advantages over commuting to an office downtown, but there are also disadvantages.
Working out of one's home allows for the intrusion of work pressures into the home, or of household distractions into the office. Another problem is the lack of the disciplined ritual of "going to the office," a place and time for work.
A solution could be for two or three nearby home offices to create a space sharing arrangement that meets everyone's needs better than if everyone worked in their own homes. Imagine a writer living in an urban apartment and an interior decorator living in a house on the lake, each setting up a room for themselves in each-other's home. Or how about a computer programmer who lives in a high traffic corner swapping with a hair stylist a few blocks away in a modern high rise apartment. Each person can then make a routine of going to work, possibly in a more suitable setting, without the additional cost of renting an office.
Of course, you wouldn't want to offer space in your house to someone you don't trust (or accept space in their house), and you'd want to set up some rules about how to the space can and cannot be used. But overall, if such an arrangement can work, it can improve some of the focus and motivation problems that take a bite out of some home offices' productivity.
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I try to keep my quality high, in the face of relentless mediocrity. I live in Berkeley, California, at a place called the Wormhole, and am a maker of things.
http://members.cruzio.com/~loqi/
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