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> - work from a coworking space (a smaller one where you actually get to know people and hang out) (edit, i assumed working from home, but that's probably not t

> - work from a coworking space (a smaller one where you actually get to know people and hang out) (edit, i assumed working from home, but that's probably not the case) Serious question/devil's advocate here: if a corporation/company/business/startup/whatever is paying you for 8 hours of work a day (8am -> 5pm with a 1 hour lunch in between), when are you supposed to talk to people in a co-working space? Are you saying like, in between meetings, and when you aren't "heads down" tracking down bugs/looking at logs/writing documentation/writing code/writing tests, you just... shoot the shit throughout the day vocally across from one desk to another? Walk to a watercooler and hope somebody else is also randomly hanging out there throughout the day? How many times can you do that a day? Multiple 15 minute watercooler breaks a day? Go to a group lunch? I feel like that would hurt the average person's productivity. Sounds like a lot of distractions. Obviously humans aren't binary objects that are just "work non stop" or not with no feelings. I just feel like you'd be replacing "I hate coding/being alone/no social aspect" with "I'm socialized but now I'm behind on my work/distracted/can't get any peace"

KptMarchewa 4y ago
Average person paid to work 8 hours probably spends half of that time on browsing internet, so there's little loss.
viraptor 4y ago
Realistically I'm not even close to being 100% occupied with work during the work day. Maybe some people can do it, but none of the ones I know. But it's just an idea - not everyone behaves the same. If you hate distractions, I wouldn't recommend it to you. But yeah, for me that's just organic chat about anything when people are not deep into some task, group lunch, some tech chat about a "new thing", etc.
embedder 4y ago
Various groups of engineers from my team and adjacent teams eat lunch together pretty much every day. Even ignoring lunch, we all still take plenty of breaks throughout the day to decompress, stretch, walk, grab snacks, make coffee, and so on - during each of which we have ample opportunity to chat with the folks around the office. We chat about our weekends and common interests, as well as misc tech topics that may or may not be relevant to the job. Once a week we actually have a scheduled coffee chat for the whole team. I couldn’t work at a place that didn’t accept these sorts of interactions as a normal part of work life. No one does eight hours of heads-down work every day, unless they’re actually at work 10+ hour days every day.

KptMarchewa 4y ago

Average person paid to work 8 hours probably spends half of that time on browsing internet, so there's little loss.

viraptor 4y ago

Realistically I'm not even close to being 100% occupied with work during the work day. Maybe some people can do it, but none of the ones I know. But it's just an idea - not everyone behaves the same. If you hate distractions, I wouldn't recommend it to you. But yeah, for me that's just organic chat about anything when people are not deep into some task, group lunch, some tech chat about a "new thing", etc.

embedder 4y ago

Various groups of engineers from my team and adjacent teams eat lunch together pretty much every day. Even ignoring lunch, we all still take plenty of breaks throughout the day to decompress, stretch, walk, grab snacks, make coffee, and so on - during each of which we have ample opportunity to chat with the folks around the office. We chat about our weekends and common interests, as well as misc tech topics that may or may not be relevant to the job. Once a week we actually have a scheduled coffee chat for the whole team. I couldn’t work at a place that didn’t accept these sorts of interactions as a normal part of work life. No one does eight hours of heads-down work every day, unless they’re actually at work 10+ hour days every day.