I have a home office in San Francisco. With a remote team including direct reports nine hours ahead of me, it’s important to me that it’s a specific room that’s mostly dedicated for work. When I’ve had guests in town who take the room, I work from the living room but it’s not the same. I can work from anywhere—but day-to-day, I like to have - a decent sized desk - pen and paper handy - screen real estate (e.g., home office, I have two 27” monitors in addition to my MBPR; setup isn’t as polished at corporate office where I have one 21” external display. Still, better than one.)

Prior to being in a position where I pretty much _had_ to work from home certain days, I found it unnatural. I couldn’t imagine not going into the office... Getting the workspace right helped. Leveraging communication tools helped replicate the hallway conversations I missed a lot initially. (Quick video calls > chat > email).