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Before Breakfast

The New Corner Office: You could move

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

If your job can be done anywhere, consider your options

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0:00.0

Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

0:07.0

He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero.

0:13.7

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood

0:20.3

who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

0:22.9

A Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the new corner office, the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the new world of work,

0:46.0

where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.

0:51.0

Today's tip is to think about moving.

0:55.0

Yes, that is a huge thing to consider.

0:58.0

But if your job can be done anywhere, it's important to consider whether somewhere else might have enough benefits to justify the pain of moving there.

1:09.0

And maybe you will stay put, but you could move. You want to consider the possibility.

1:17.0

One of the reasons my husband and I left New York City many years ago is that we realized that we didn't have particularly good reasons to stay.

1:26.0

Neither of us had to be there daily for our jobs, and with young kids we weren't exactly taking advantage of the city's nightlife.

1:33.0

So we looked for somewhere cheaper and where we could have more space.

1:37.0

We wound up out in Pennsylvania, and neither of us particularly has to be here either, but we've got good schools in a much different lifestyle.

1:46.0

If you are working from home long term, it's quite possible that your job can be done anywhere too.

1:53.0

So you might consider if that anywhere should be somewhere other than where you are.

2:00.0

First, a practical matter. Maybe you want to move to a home where you could have a dedicated home office.

2:07.0

Especially if you and your spouse are both working from home, an office has some real upsides.

2:13.0

Second, maybe you want to consider somewhere with a lower cost of living, somewhere that you could get that office.

2:20.0

If you think you might be coming into your organization's physical offices one day a week in the future, you could expand your radius to within two hours of the office,

2:30.0

rather than the 45 minutes or so that you might deem tolerable for a daily commute.

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