Is working from an office in the garden cost efficient?

Building a garden office to boost productivity, improve your quality of life and save on petrol bills has a lot more advantages than you may first think.

(PRWEB) October 9, 2005 -- It all started in the 80's with the advent of the personal computer and very slow dial-up connections to the companies mainframe, which allowed employees to work from home in the 3rd bedroom, dining room or garage. Although the concept was practical the technology did not provide the through put.

It has taken almost 25 years for the techology to provide acceptable productivity levels: broadband offers a speedy connection and personal computers have never been cheaper. More importantly working from home has gained acceptance by companies who now see employees actually becoming more productive.

As more people find working from home becoming the norm, using the 3rd bedroom, dining room or garage is too close to the daily activities and distractions, so are now seeking to create space outside their home. An extention is a messy and lengthy project and there won't be much change out of £50,000. This leaves one other option and that is to build a timber framed garden office. These buildings are well insulated, bright and airy and cost from £6000.00 for a 12ft x 8ft and can be erected in 10 days. You can declare your office as a capital item which will allow you to reduce your income tax by 20% of the cost per annum plus you can claim the VAT back.

Other savings on average are 15 hours more productive time, as this would be your commute time and £440.00 per month saving on travel costs. Even when leaving out the productivity increase your saving will pay for your garden office in the first year.

There are other benefits as well, if your clients visit you, they don't need to enter your home anymore, this means mum does'nt feel your business is encroaching on her space and also you don't need to worry about noisy children. A lot of people working from home feel they don't get away from their work as it is often too tempting just to pop into the bedroom office and check for emails, having a garden office means you can lock up at the end of the day and come home.

Although your garden office is designed to provide you with a comfortable working space, this quiet comfortable space can be used by kids for doing their homework, studying or chilling out with their friends and what about mum when she needs a peaceful environment to read, relax or catch up with her work.

Just one word of advise, when planning try to think beyond your work requirements, think about the kids and maybe using this space for recreational purposes like pool, table tennis, computer games etc.

For more information you can visit www.gardenofficeco.co.uk or call Roy Jackson on 01483-889666.

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