This Utah company wants to change the way people work from home

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Backyard Office Utah builds fully custom 'sheds' in backyards for remote workers to use as home offices.

HERRIMAN — Sydney Jones is part of a growing labor force that works entirely from home., when the marketing agency she worked at went totally remote. Even after things began to open up, the company remained committed to the virtual office experience.

"This, I think, will help in having more boundaries," Jones told KSL.com, only a few hours into her first work day in the newly completed office. "Before, if I got a Slack message on my phone, I just grabbed my computer out of my room. Now I'll have to make the very conscious choice to go out to the office and get my computer. I think it will be nice that it's not quite as accessible ... but it's still very accessible.

But when he was finished, he knew right away it had business potential. As more and more employees experienced being able to work from home, he felt demand for such working spaces would only continue to grow.backs up the assumption, finding that 21% of jobs were fully home-based in 2021, up from only 11% in 2019.

The sheds aren't exactly cheap — they run from around $35,000 to $45,000 with a variety of bells and whistles that cost extra — but Hitzhusen said the company is geared toward those who want something more robust, which is why Backyard Office Utah builds the sheds the same way they would build a house.

At times, she paid for vacation rentals to be able to work free from distraction while finishing a project, sometimes being away from home for a week at a time once or twice a month. Michael Clark said they picked Backyard Office Utah over other companies because it offered the best pricing, and because of the variety of customizations Hitzhusen offered.

 

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