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I agree with you 100%. I never want to give up remote work. It suits my personality perfectly. Remote meetings are great. They tend to be shorter, get to the po

I agree with you 100%. I never want to give up remote work. It suits my personality perfectly. Remote meetings are great. They tend to be shorter, get to the point, and if they begin to ramble and I don't need to engage, I can open up another tab and browse HN. However, I do appreciate how lucky I am. My entire family are out of the house during my working hours. I have the luxury of a dedicated study in which I can work. I have multiple laptops and screens. I have a good webcam, microphone and speakers. I have an enormous desk for it all to sit on, and probably most importantly a fast and reliable broadband connection. I also have a dog to keep my company. If working from home meant balancing a laptop on my knees while I sat on the edge of my bed, and tethered through my phone, I doubt I'd find it so pleasurable.

random42_ 6y ago
> Remote meetings are great. They tend to be shorter, get to the point My team loves meetings. Every question asked was an excuse to gather a bunch of people around a desk and talk for almost an hour. Precious hours wasted in useless meetings. The best thing that happened with remote work was that my team realized that a single message or email was more than enough 99% of the time and now we don’t waste so many hours in those useless meetings anymore.
blunte 6y ago
Yes, working remotely does require proper space separation from other family members. I could not have done it 15 years ago with small children. For those in dense cities with small living spaces and multiple flatmates or family, I can understand the need to go back to the office as a better alternative. But if we were able to setup a proper home working environment (as offices tend to make reasonable effort to be proper work environments), then I bet a lot of people would choose remote first.

random42_ 6y ago

> Remote meetings are great. They tend to be shorter, get to the point My team loves meetings. Every question asked was an excuse to gather a bunch of people around a desk and talk for almost an hour. Precious hours wasted in useless meetings. The best thing that happened with remote work was that my team realized that a single message or email was more than enough 99% of the time and now we don’t waste so many hours in those useless meetings anymore.

blunte 6y ago

Yes, working remotely does require proper space separation from other family members. I could not have done it 15 years ago with small children. For those in dense cities with small living spaces and multiple flatmates or family, I can understand the need to go back to the office as a better alternative. But if we were able to setup a proper home working environment (as offices tend to make reasonable effort to be proper work environments), then I bet a lot of people would choose remote first.