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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

by 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.

by o-__-o 7y ago

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.