You're more likely to have something worth saying, and a work product worth talking about, if you aren't wasting time on your commute and shooting the shit in t

You're more likely to have something worth saying, and a work product worth talking about, if you aren't wasting time on your commute and shooting the shit in the office. The problem is that no one actually knows if that's true, or whether it's universal or individual. I used to commute by train, and I got a good hour of time to myself to think. I did great work thinking through problems in that time. Now I work remotely I try to carve out an hour to just think about stuff, but it's less effective because I'm easily distracted by house things like washing up or playng with a cat. Similarly, I got value from hearing conversations around the office, and now I don't have that. Slack can be the same thing if people join in, but so far it's rarely as effective. All of that is tempered by the fact that I do much better work at home. Fewer distractions, more time, and longer quiet periods, all sum up very productive times. Ideally we need some from column A and some from column B. I absolutely don't think remote is perfect, but it's certainly better. With work on how to collaborate in remote environments I can see it being even better still.