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Originally Posted by DaFace
I'm somewhere in the middle. I definitely value eliminating the commute (which was 45-60 minutes one-way for me back in the day), and when I REALLY need to focus, I can crank through things far faster from home than I could with the distractions of an office.
On the other hand, there are a lot of times when I feel pretty isolated. I'll end up banging my head against a wall on a problem because I don't want to bug people where, in an office, I might just ask the people around me if they have any ideas.
I think in my perfect world, I'd work somewhere that has a 2-day-a-week hybrid policy. Everyone goes in a couple of days for collaborative stuff, and everyone stays home the other days to crank shit out.
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See, we use Slack and I find instant messaging far more convenient than somebody coming to my cube and wanting to talk in the middle of work. As you can imagine, I'm the only member of my team in Iowa so I've always been "long distance" from my coworkers. We do all of our collaboration online and it works great.