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My productivity probably doubled when I moved to remote working last year. In the morning, I don't need to commute an hour to the office, giving me an extra ho

My productivity probably doubled when I moved to remote working last year. In the morning, I don't need to commute an hour to the office, giving me an extra hour of sleep. My workspace is also superior to what I'd ever get in the office. But the biggest boost in my productivity has come from the lack of distractions when working from home. If I'm trying to focus on something, I can set my status as busy and mute notifications, leaving me to work in peace without interruption.

mjfl 6y ago
> My productivity probably doubled when I moved to remote working last year. Everyone who claims this is lying to themselves.
- randmeerkat 6y ago
  I guess I’m lying to myself too then. My productivity has doubled as well.
  - mjfl 6y ago
    It's good to get some insight now and then.
- jjav 6y ago
  > Everyone who claims this is lying to themselves. Certainly not everyone. At my employer a VP produced a report for 2020 showing how his division had increased both productivity and response times across the board by a non-trivial margin due to WFH. Doesn't mean this generalizes across all teams but certainly at least some are seeing such data.
  - mjfl 6y ago
    Your VP lied to your company, to get paid more.
- Toutouxc 6y ago
  My productivity is possibly 20-50 % higher now. Am I too lying to myself? Or do you draw the line somewhere else?
jjav 6y ago
> My workspace is also superior to what I'd ever get in the office. An interesting factor is how this is dependent on how confident we can be to continue WFH. Like many people, I'm nowhere near prepared to have a good home office, the house is way too tiny. Which was fine when I didn't WFH more than a few days a month. But I could easily solve that by moving to a cheaper area where I could get a house with enough space for a dedicated home office. But to do that I need to be confident WFH will continue. Hard to predict what to do. (So what I've done in the interim is lease a small office walking distance from my house, lots of vacancies right now.)
- tjpnz 6y ago
  >An interesting factor is how this is dependent on how confident we can be to continue WFH. I had this problem and spent a few months working on the couch before buying a desk and office chair - I dropped a few thousand on these things alone. What gave me the confidence was the introduction of a WFH allowance and news a few people around the company had moved to the countryside.
  - sokoloff 6y ago
    A few thousand on just a desk and a chair? I’m left thinking that desk must be amazing!
    - ghaff 6y ago
      Doesn't seem out of the realm of reasonableness. A top office chair will be $1400 or so new. (My Aeron broke fairly near the beginning of all this; took me a few months to be able to get a replacement.) It wouldn't be hard to spend the same on a desk.
- joelbluminator 6y ago
  I think we can safely assume a sizable percentage will allow WFH. I mean Facebook, Twitter etc already said this will go beyond covid, and many others will follow. But of course not everyone will be 100% WFH, many will do a combination probably.

mjfl 6y ago

> My productivity probably doubled when I moved to remote working last year. Everyone who claims this is lying to themselves.

randmeerkat 6y ago
I guess I’m lying to myself too then. My productivity has doubled as well.
- mjfl 6y ago
  It's good to get some insight now and then.
jjav 6y ago
> Everyone who claims this is lying to themselves. Certainly not everyone. At my employer a VP produced a report for 2020 showing how his division had increased both productivity and response times across the board by a non-trivial margin due to WFH. Doesn't mean this generalizes across all teams but certainly at least some are seeing such data.
- mjfl 6y ago
  Your VP lied to your company, to get paid more.
Toutouxc 6y ago
My productivity is possibly 20-50 % higher now. Am I too lying to myself? Or do you draw the line somewhere else?

jjav 6y ago

> My workspace is also superior to what I'd ever get in the office. An interesting factor is how this is dependent on how confident we can be to continue WFH. Like many people, I'm nowhere near prepared to have a good home office, the house is way too tiny. Which was fine when I didn't WFH more than a few days a month. But I could easily solve that by moving to a cheaper area where I could get a house with enough space for a dedicated home office. But to do that I need to be confident WFH will continue. Hard to predict what to do. (So what I've done in the interim is lease a small office walking distance from my house, lots of vacancies right now.)

tjpnz 6y ago
>An interesting factor is how this is dependent on how confident we can be to continue WFH. I had this problem and spent a few months working on the couch before buying a desk and office chair - I dropped a few thousand on these things alone. What gave me the confidence was the introduction of a WFH allowance and news a few people around the company had moved to the countryside.
- sokoloff 6y ago
  A few thousand on just a desk and a chair? I’m left thinking that desk must be amazing!
  - ghaff 6y ago
    Doesn't seem out of the realm of reasonableness. A top office chair will be $1400 or so new. (My Aeron broke fairly near the beginning of all this; took me a few months to be able to get a replacement.) It wouldn't be hard to spend the same on a desk.
joelbluminator 6y ago
I think we can safely assume a sizable percentage will allow WFH. I mean Facebook, Twitter etc already said this will go beyond covid, and many others will follow. But of course not everyone will be 100% WFH, many will do a combination probably.