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I don't prefer being at the office. After 5+ years of predominantly remote work, I'm not going back to regular office hours. It's not even the commute, it's bei
by exDM69 7y ago
I don't prefer being at the office. After 5+ years of predominantly remote work, I'm not going back to regular office hours. It's not even the commute, it's being at the office in an environment that does not promote getting work done.
I work for a 10k+ employee company with locations worldwide, so online communication is a must in the first place. In most projects I work, my closest collaborators aren't necessarily even in the same timezone as I am.
My work/life separation is simple: I have a separate laptop for work, and when it's closed I'm not at work any more. My remote work arrangements have tremendously increased my quality of life.
The difficult part is that many employers don't offer the possibility of mostly remote work. I tried looking for jobs elsewhere for unrelated reasons, but I ended up turning down the offers I got because it was 5 days a week on-site.
- Tade0 7y agoI have had a work laptop since mid 2017 - always issued by the company. This is enough to separate work from life. No need for extra office space in your house etc. - simply add decent noise cancelling headphones to that and you're good to go.
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- walshemj 7y agoErr not really at work I have space for a triple monitor set up at home I just have the laptop screen.
- Tade0 7y agoNo reason why you shouldn't have the same setup at home. Or, IMHO, at all.
- ghaff 7y agoI'm lucky enough personally to have a custom-constructed dedicated office at home. Though, truth be told, I do a lot of my day to day work just on my laptop. The desktop is mostly for both work and personal AV/photo editing. However, for a lot of people, their workspace at home is a table in a corner someplace and they don't really have room to setup a keyboard tray, multiple big monitors, etc.
- Tade0 7y agoI don't envy them, especially that I've been through such an arrangement and the second order effects got me in trouble at work more than once.
- rcruzeiro 7y agoI used to have a 32" display at home but I got rid of it. I find that I'm much more focused and productive with a single display. Not saying it's going to be the same for you but it's just something to keep in mind. A couple of years ago I couldn't imagine getting stuff done with only my laptop screen.
- non-entity 7y agoI did a short (6 month) contract remotely a couple years ago. Parts of it were nice, and and I could see enjoying working a few days out of the week remote (although I'd prefer a shorter work day or work week tbh) I didn't care for fully remote. I rarely have reason to leave the apartment and it was just kinda depressing being stuck inside my apartment all day
- drewbuschhorn 7y agoBut you could choose to leave your apartment to get lunch, do some shopping, or leave during non-work hours?
- fernandotakai 7y agosame for me, but instead of a separate laptop, i have a separate OS. if i'm on linux, i'm working. if i'm on windows, i'm not. i don't even have VPN software on my windows install -- it's purely for entertainment. other than that, i have a separate office on my apartment that i treat as my... well, office. i'm the only one on it during the day (apart from my dog, but sometimes a dog break is necessary) and my wife knows that if i'm here with my door closed, it's because i'm focusing. this arrangement worked pretty well for the past ~7 years.
- rcruzeiro 7y agoMy work/life separation is a timer. I like timing what I do so I can compare with my estimates. The advantage of this is that once I get to a certain amount of hours in a day, I know it's time to stop as I wouldn't even be as productive as those initial hours if I continued.