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You mean why work from home is better _for you_. Can't imagine most people have uninterrupted access to sunlight throughout the day. If we're using personal exp

You mean why work from home is better _for you_. Can't imagine most people have uninterrupted access to sunlight throughout the day. If we're using personal experiences, I certainly have never lived in a house or apartment where any of the rooms had that luxury.

hackernewds 3y ago
which is why the _option_ of working in the office is the best :)
draven 3y ago
I've never lived in a house or flat where the rooms didn't have a window. I wonder if that's a regulation here (France), that wouldn't surprise me. Also, the labor law mandates windows and as much natural light as possible in offices.
- jwestbury 3y ago
  Eh -- most home offices tend to end up in bedrooms, which in the US are obligated to have a window that a person could fit through (or to have some other secondary exit aside from a door). One problem is where the window faces. A north-facing window, or a window facing into a hillside or into a courtyard, does not allow sufficient sunlight. In London, my flat is in a Victorian terraced house, and the bedroom I'd use as a home office has a window which only has views of the house next door, and very little natural light. (That said, probably still more natural light than I got in my office, where I'm essentially in a corridor.)
  - Broken_Hippo 3y ago
    That might be a code where you live, but either it isn't universal or older places are exempt. My first apartment - which still rents out, decades later, had a small windowless bedroom with only a door for an exit. The nearest window was blocked by the kitchen sink.
    - loloquwowndueo 3y ago
      Older places are not exempt. It’s probably a matter of lack of enforcement. People die in those places, man: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-old-port-fire-1.6788756 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-old-port-fi...
- throwaway290 3y ago
  How much use is a window if you live near a north-facing hillside in higher latitudes, inside arctic circle, etc...
aiisjustanif 3y ago
Faster for me to get outside and walk while working from home than the office.
ryanjshaw 3y ago
> MY collection of reasons

hackernewds 3y ago

which is why the _option_ of working in the office is the best :)

draven 3y ago

I've never lived in a house or flat where the rooms didn't have a window. I wonder if that's a regulation here (France), that wouldn't surprise me. Also, the labor law mandates windows and as much natural light as possible in offices.

jwestbury 3y ago
Eh -- most home offices tend to end up in bedrooms, which in the US are obligated to have a window that a person could fit through (or to have some other secondary exit aside from a door). One problem is where the window faces. A north-facing window, or a window facing into a hillside or into a courtyard, does not allow sufficient sunlight. In London, my flat is in a Victorian terraced house, and the bedroom I'd use as a home office has a window which only has views of the house next door, and very little natural light. (That said, probably still more natural light than I got in my office, where I'm essentially in a corridor.)
- Broken_Hippo 3y ago
  That might be a code where you live, but either it isn't universal or older places are exempt. My first apartment - which still rents out, decades later, had a small windowless bedroom with only a door for an exit. The nearest window was blocked by the kitchen sink.
  - loloquwowndueo 3y ago
    Older places are not exempt. It’s probably a matter of lack of enforcement. People die in those places, man: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-old-port-fire-1.6788756 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-old-port-fi...
throwaway290 3y ago
How much use is a window if you live near a north-facing hillside in higher latitudes, inside arctic circle, etc...

aiisjustanif 3y ago

Faster for me to get outside and walk while working from home than the office.

ryanjshaw 3y ago

> MY collection of reasons