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Re:The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Le... by megaman22 on Saturday May 26, 2018 @02:48PM (#17163635)
If you can swing some kind of work-from-home heavy situation with your employer, it's also astounding the amount of stuff you can get done. At my best, I was going into the office on Monday, for status meetings and planning, then I'd work from home Tuesday through Friday. I got more done in those six months than I have in the two and a half years since, now that I'm back in the office most of the time again.

Unfortunately, people just love to see asses in seats.

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Re:The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Le... by bolivier on Saturday May 26, 2018 @11:01PM (#17165248)
> Unfortunately, people just love to see asses in seats.

A related problem I've noticed to this attitude is people's acceptance of it as a "fact of life." I work with a ton of people who recognize that time-in-seat is a meaningless metric, but somebody above them cares about it and they refuse to outrightly act like it's bullshit. I've been told by my manager that my time in the office is important not to him, but to our CEO.

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