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Yeah but the difference is when you work remote, you can use that other 40% of your time to: - run errands - do the laundry - hit the gym for a while - cook
by eertami 8y ago
Yeah but the difference is when you work remote, you can use that other 40% of your time to:
- run errands
- do the laundry
- hit the gym for a while
- cook a tasty lunch or even dinner for later.
Whereas in the office, you just use that time for chitchat, HN/reddit, wondering around etc.
And I'm not a reclusive jerk, I like my coworkers and I do enjoy it when we meet up in person, but I don't need to see them every day. We have a short voice call most days, and we catch up irl possibly 6-12 times a year which is already more than I see some of my friends who live further away.
Honestly there's just so much more time in the day for my personal hobbies and activities that I don't think I could ever go back to on site, or even full-time/more than 4 days/week for that matter.
- dkersten 8y agoI also do a lot of "watercooler chit chat" over slack and, to a lesser extent, voice chat. I don't need to be in the same physical space as my coworkers to do that. I mean, before starting my career, most of my tech chit chat was online, since my offline friends at the time were typically not too interested in tech. What I do find problematic is when the majority of a company is in the same physical space and only a few are remote, as then the remote people tend to lose out.