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Advantages of working at home: 1. Equipment I pick. 2. Furniture I pick. 3. Temperature I pick. 4. Lighting I pick. 5. Music I pick (without hea
by edw519 16y ago
Advantages of working at home:
1. Equipment I pick.
2. Furniture I pick.
3. Temperature I pick.
4. Lighting I pick.
5. Music I pick (without headphones!).
6. Clothing I pick (shorts in summer, sweatsuit in winter)
7. Food & drink I pick. (It's really good.)
8. Commute time = 1 minute per day.
9. No gas/car expense.
10. Almost no interruptions.
11. 6 people have my IP phone#.
12. 12 people have my cell phone#.
13. Everyone else --> email.
14. I check email when I'm ready, not them.
15. I set my task list (but still deliver as promised).
16. Can easily run errands any time.
17. Can easily do household tasks any time.
18. Much easier to schedule exercise.
19. See SO much more often.
20. 4 legged creatures make much better office mates.
21. People respect my time much more when I do visit the office.
22. Can more easily switch tasks.
23. Much easier to focus all the time.
24. I get twice as much done.
25. No need to alt-tab when reading Hacker News.
- gbog 16y agoYou seem to be a bit misanthropic. A single advantage of working in an office within a team is that you engage everyday, face to face, with human beings, learn from them, eat with them, struggle, fight, laugh, sweat, etc. All those things I hope you won't tell me you can do with your pet(s). For me the prefered config is a war room, with tech lead and devs in the same place, at the same table. Add headphones, irc and politeness, and you'll get great things done quickly, if (big if) the team spirit is good.
- wglb 16y agoOne thing he didn't say that is, in my opinion, a result from all those things, is getting and staying in the zone. If there is a harder place to get into the zone than a "war" room, I can't think of what it is.