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Yeah, I work in an open space environment but we get to work at home from time to time when the need arises. I'd say I'm at least twice as productive at home th

Yeah, I work in an open space environment but we get to work at home from time to time when the need arises. I'd say I'm at least twice as productive at home than in the office.

hinkley 9y ago
The time working remotely worked best for me, I spent three to three and a half days a week interacting with coworkers, meeting, troubleshooting and identifying problems. Then on fridays I sat in a coffee shop coding like mad to address one or more of the things I learned by talking to people. My code (central library six products used to interchange data) was good because I saw it reflected in the experiences of my coworkers. To experience that I had to train people to interact with me when they got stuck. I needed to be absent one day a week so that I had an opportunity to do something about what I learned. To execute the plan I had built up all week. Almost half of the code I wrote all week was done on fridays. But it was often the most useful.
oblio 9y ago
Do that for a couple of yours and then get back to us. I saw an interesting quote recently: “Alone we go faster but together we get farther”.
Bizarro 9y ago
I would say I'm about twice as productive too. Open office is the complete disaster result of an unholy alliance of management trying to skate by on the cheap and agile consultants pimping their latest slogans. Even without open office, there is so much chit-chat, gossip, politics, posturing (how about a meeting to discuss the upcoming meeting), and other crap that gets swept under the rug as collaboration. Don't forget that certain personality types just can't handle working from home or in a quiet environment. They'll just go bonkers, so they run around telling everybody else that you can't be creative and collaborate without chatting someone up in the urinal next to you. The top comment spin is so humorous that you would almost think it's a troll, but probably not.
- closeparen 9y ago
  I'm about twice as productive at home too, when I have a concrete solo task. But early in a project, when we're not sure what it is yet, collaboration matters.
  - Bizarro 9y ago
    Nothing beats a white board early on, but there's no reason (and somewhat counterproductive) for everybody to be co-located 8 hours, 5 days a week.
    - closeparen 9y ago
      Sure, it's great to have a 1+ days/week to work from home, but to do that you're still living in the same city.

Yeah, I work in an open space environment but we get to work at home from time to time when the need arises. I'd say I'm at least twice as productive at home than in the office.

hinkley 9y ago

The time working remotely worked best for me, I spent three to three and a half days a week interacting with coworkers, meeting, troubleshooting and identifying problems. Then on fridays I sat in a coffee shop coding like mad to address one or more of the things I learned by talking to people. My code (central library six products used to interchange data) was good because I saw it reflected in the experiences of my coworkers. To experience that I had to train people to interact with me when they got stuck. I needed to be absent one day a week so that I had an opportunity to do something about what I learned. To execute the plan I had built up all week. Almost half of the code I wrote all week was done on fridays. But it was often the most useful.

oblio 9y ago

Do that for a couple of yours and then get back to us. I saw an interesting quote recently: “Alone we go faster but together we get farther”.

Bizarro 9y ago

I would say I'm about twice as productive too. Open office is the complete disaster result of an unholy alliance of management trying to skate by on the cheap and agile consultants pimping their latest slogans. Even without open office, there is so much chit-chat, gossip, politics, posturing (how about a meeting to discuss the upcoming meeting), and other crap that gets swept under the rug as collaboration. Don't forget that certain personality types just can't handle working from home or in a quiet environment. They'll just go bonkers, so they run around telling everybody else that you can't be creative and collaborate without chatting someone up in the urinal next to you. The top comment spin is so humorous that you would almost think it's a troll, but probably not.

closeparen 9y ago
I'm about twice as productive at home too, when I have a concrete solo task. But early in a project, when we're not sure what it is yet, collaboration matters.
- Bizarro 9y ago
  Nothing beats a white board early on, but there's no reason (and somewhat counterproductive) for everybody to be co-located 8 hours, 5 days a week.
  - closeparen 9y ago
    Sure, it's great to have a 1+ days/week to work from home, but to do that you're still living in the same city.