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Not OP, but I've been happily working 100% remotely for almost 4 years, so I'll share my two cents. Personally, I get a lot more work done from home than I ever

Not OP, but I've been happily working 100% remotely for almost 4 years, so I'll share my two cents. Personally, I get a lot more work done from home than I ever did at an office. Offices have lots of distractions, and it's way too easy to waste time chatting up the person sitting next to you. (That might just be me, though; I'm pretty chatty.) Cutting out the commute is a big one as well, not just for the time saved but also money (gas and car depreciation) and mental energy (I found driving 45 minutes each way pretty draining). Plus, I have the flexibility to take a break and walk the dog, or run a quick errand, or play video games—things that wouldn't be feasible in an office. That said, there are distractions at home, too, and you have to have a lot of discipline. I got almost nothing done in my first couple months of remote work, and it took me close to a year to get into the flow and develop a structure that actually felt productive. (And then I had the opposite problem of working too much because it's harder to draw a line between work and play.) I do miss the coworker comradery sometimes, but my wife and I also have a pretty big group of close friends that live nearby, so I get to socialize with people outside of work fairly often. Working remotely is definitely not for everyone, but you would have to pay me a LOT of money to convince me to commute to an office every day.

BorisBorisov91 7y ago
OP agrees :D I've been working 4 years remotely and I wouldn't go switch to on site. We are building our company as a fully remote company.
- bitL 7y ago
  I worked for 7+ years remotely and turned down Google/Facebook/Uber/Amazon/Netflix because they wanted me to move. I'd rather spend two months on Hawaii than in some "cool open-plan office", distracted to death, getting sick around influenza periods and wasting time commuting in the process.
  - o-__-o 7y ago
    Ha if you think you won’t get the flu because you work remotely.. by not being in an office, herd protection actually goes down. I’ve had more illness working remotely than working in the office over my 20+ years. That said, you’re away from coworkers with kids. That’s the sickness that doesn’t help immunity. But once you have a kid of your own, all that worry goes out the window. Don’t mean to be a party pooper, but its all reality out here *also how does this remotemore site compare to triplebyte?
    - BorisBorisov91 7y ago
      OP here! RemoteMore vs Triplebyte is an easy question. Triplebyte: "Do you have remote opportunities? No. Right now, most of the companies we work with are hiring full-time in-office engineers. In the future, we hope to offer more remote opportunities." -- On the remote work and getting sick, I don't have personal observations. I'll leave that question to others.
    - bitL 7y ago
      It's my observation that when I worked remotely and traveled around the world at the same time, I had the best health state in my life; that was incomparable to e.g. a previous employment with open-plan office with colleagues taking smoking breaks all the time, making the indoor air nasty, and being guaranteed to catch some long-lasting small to medium sickness every year (e.g. half of the office coughing a bit for 1-2 months). Now visiting Google/Facebook and seeing desks crammed next to each other... I meet people outside, throw own parties, visit gyms/saunas, so I am exposed to latest "flu trends", yet remote work made my illnesses infrequent (well, they do happen if I can't stop and don't cut working time to 8 hours/day...). Also, the stress is way lower, I don't need to look at a boss' grumpy face that overcompensates for their lack of capabilities by ramping up their controlling/dominance aspects.

BorisBorisov91 7y ago

OP agrees :D I've been working 4 years remotely and I wouldn't go switch to on site. We are building our company as a fully remote company.

bitL 7y ago
I worked for 7+ years remotely and turned down Google/Facebook/Uber/Amazon/Netflix because they wanted me to move. I'd rather spend two months on Hawaii than in some "cool open-plan office", distracted to death, getting sick around influenza periods and wasting time commuting in the process.
- o-__-o 7y ago
  Ha if you think you won’t get the flu because you work remotely.. by not being in an office, herd protection actually goes down. I’ve had more illness working remotely than working in the office over my 20+ years. That said, you’re away from coworkers with kids. That’s the sickness that doesn’t help immunity. But once you have a kid of your own, all that worry goes out the window. Don’t mean to be a party pooper, but its all reality out here *also how does this remotemore site compare to triplebyte?
  - BorisBorisov91 7y ago
    OP here! RemoteMore vs Triplebyte is an easy question. Triplebyte: "Do you have remote opportunities? No. Right now, most of the companies we work with are hiring full-time in-office engineers. In the future, we hope to offer more remote opportunities." -- On the remote work and getting sick, I don't have personal observations. I'll leave that question to others.
  - bitL 7y ago
    It's my observation that when I worked remotely and traveled around the world at the same time, I had the best health state in my life; that was incomparable to e.g. a previous employment with open-plan office with colleagues taking smoking breaks all the time, making the indoor air nasty, and being guaranteed to catch some long-lasting small to medium sickness every year (e.g. half of the office coughing a bit for 1-2 months). Now visiting Google/Facebook and seeing desks crammed next to each other... I meet people outside, throw own parties, visit gyms/saunas, so I am exposed to latest "flu trends", yet remote work made my illnesses infrequent (well, they do happen if I can't stop and don't cut working time to 8 hours/day...). Also, the stress is way lower, I don't need to look at a boss' grumpy face that overcompensates for their lack of capabilities by ramping up their controlling/dominance aspects.