Re:The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function witho...
by durbatuluk on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:44PM
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This "office feeling" is something still strange to me as someone who like to work with less cloth as possible.
Maybe is my background in biology which we did everything in same place, research, sample, drink and eat. In fact working in office make my production drop even with 35h/week.
Maybe is related to programming as hobby turning to job.
I've also found that face-to-face is necessary sometimes. I work with clients, and sometimes things can get hairy on a project. Over email or even on a phone call, sometimes it's easy to forget that the person on the other end is a human being with their own hopes and dreams and life and desires. Getting to see them in real life, having little moments of downtime where you're on a coffee break and just chatting about life, those are important. That's easy to miss in a remote job, and it leads to a lot of stress.
Also something I didn't think of when I started working remote... the constant letters from my electric company about how I use more electricity than a normal house. Because normally people aren't home all day with lights and heat/AC and computers running.