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Discuss the topic of telecommuting, and you’re likely to enter a heated discussion. In one half of the debate, some people say it’s fantastic, there’s no travel, no lost time by merely having to be in one location for a set time, no senseless group meetings, no tedious chatter. But on the other side of the debate, others say they just couldn’t produce the self-control that’s necessary to be a telecommuter. They’d be a bit reluctant to invite any clients to their household. The youngsters, when they are off school, are simply too much of a distraction. There’s simply too many things going on in the house to even begin the day. Finally, the office is fantastic simply because they have a desire to get away from home life.

Critics of telecommuting now have something that might actually force them to reconsider : garden offices. Garden studios are built in your own back garden, not adjoining your house. A garden office offers a chance to work in a quiet, creative environment, with the natural garden viewable from your office windows, and a quiet venue to hold meetings.

The fact that the garden office is separate from your house is an important one. It gives you a chance to escape from domesticity to business life. Utilizing technology like the internet and VOIP, you can also very easily acquire your own telephone number just for the garden studio.

Consider further advantages of a garden office:-

- The development costs for garden studios are low when you equate rental costs for offices.
- They are eco-friendly : the journey from home to garden studio expends only natural footprints (as opposed to carbon footprints).
- You can conduct business at anytime of the day. Creative juices don’t automatically run from nine to five, so if you have a new plan, or simply wish to finish off a project in good time, walk into your garden office.
- It’s a comfortable, lighted, natural surrounding. No sick building syndrome here. No glaring light strips, grey walls and cubicles.

Garden studios can recoup their costs fairly quickly, and repayments on a loan for a garden studio can be similar, or less than, office rental costs.