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Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons. (lemmy.world)
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I've never had a WFH job and I generally don't think I'd personally want/be successful with one. My sister is fully remote and she actually hates it, but I think its more the job she doesn't like than the WFH aspect. She says its lonely and isolating on top of disliking her daily tasks. I'm not anti WFH for others at all, to absolutely clear.

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[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I absolutely prefer working from home.

I'm a programmer; my ability to work is heavily dependent on my ability to focus and think.

At home:

  • I decide how quiet it is
  • I decide when to look at or even think about interruptions from email or Slack
  • I have a nice chair, a fancy ass keyboard and expensive mouse
  • I also have a nice 27" monitor and a 34" ultrawide
  • I decide when (or if) to eat lunch
  • If I am eating lunch I have my own fridge, pantry, and numerous restaurants in a short walking distance.

My office, by comparison:

  • I cannot control the volume of the radio or what it plays
  • I cannot stop people from saying "Hey BozeKnoflook, what..." and just fucking ruining my last two hours of condensed thought and making me waste time getting back into my prior line of thought just to resume my previous state.
  • The chair is acceptable, but I fucking loathe typing on a laptop keyboard
  • The office only offers a 23" monitor to hook my laptop up to
  • Everybody goes to eat in the building's cafeteria at noon, because that is when lunch is served. There are no restaurants or food spots in a short walking distance that are a viable option. I can only eat what the cafeteria offers (and while okay, it's not great food).

Throw in the time it takes to commute back and forth and... why the hell would I want to work in the office? Sure, throw an occasional event (quarterly meetings, occasional dinner parties of the various teams, whatever) to build personal relations but I am easily far, far less productive in the office than at home.