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You are comparing the office with working ad-hoc around your family. For remote work to work you really need to build a designated space where you go to for th

You are comparing the office with working ad-hoc around your family. For remote work to work you really need to build a designated space where you go to for the 'work' part of your day. It could be a part of a bedroom, an attic, a basement, a co-op office, the point is that it must create separation and you also have to explain this separation to your family and ask them to respect it. Just because you are remote doesn't mean you are working 'from home' there is a huge difference perhaps not in distance but in mindset.

PeterisP 4y ago
It's not that easy to just "create separation" - I can imagine that most people complaining about this have actual lived-in experience about trying to do that for multiple years now since the onset of Covid, and it doesn't work for everyone. "explain this separation to your family and ask them to respect it" implies either some wishful thinking or quite privileged assumptions about this being practically reasonable where you just need to discuss it to make it true. A part of a bedroom plus asking to be left alone (and people trying to do that) does not create a work environment that's even remotely comparable to an office. Again, do be reasonable and assume that everyone who has issues with it has tried all of what you suggested multiple times over the last years and has gotten to a solid conclusion that it doesn't work and the separation at home is not going to happen for their particular situation of family and housing. And if someone needs to work not from home but in an office away from home, most people can't simply afford a proper office if they're not using an employer-provided one.