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> I happen to like the side-effect on work-life balance. There's no problem with work-life balance while working remote. You can even have better work-life bal
by kranner 7y ago
> I happen to like the side-effect on work-life balance.
There's no problem with work-life balance while working remote. You can even have better work-life balance as you don't need to take half a day off from work to attend to a 10-minute chore that can't be rescheduled. It needs maturity and trust on the part of the employers and the employees. You're almost boasting about calling a bug a feature.
- souprock 7y agoI think I see the problem: "half a day" Depending on what you mean by "a day", each commute direction is 2 to 3 hours. (or I suppose 6) You have a very long distance, or severe traffic, or something else unusual. It sounds like you would be driving over the mountains to reach a place like LA or SF. I've been a software developer at 5 different work locations in 2 different states, but I have never commuted more than 20 minutes. Currently it is almost that if I walk, or 3 minutes if I drive. This is because I choose small cities with affordable housing and low traffic. Big urban tech hubs are popular, but they mean you probably won't get a large property right near work.
- kranner 7y agoI have no commute as I’ve been fully remote for the last 8 years. But traffic is insanely bad in places like Bangalore and people just can’t choose to live in smaller places because 99% of the jobs in India are in places like Bangalore. The half-a-day case is much more the norm than the living-closer-to-work case in my experience.
- geekbird 7y agoYes, for me at my current job it would be half a day - an hour plus each way for a ten minute "bankers hours" task.
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