Back To Office. Back To Reality
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When you work from home, you tend to show results. When from the office, you might feel like you are working, but in fact not showing good results.
Try to measure the average time you spend actually working from home and from the office. Personally for me it’s on average 1 hour more work when from home :thinking-face:
Fun fact: I heard that some companies make employees go to the office to prevent them from working two full-time jobs :)
Pros 🔗
Professional
- discuss technology news;
- build relations with peers/management;
- meet people from other departments;
- more focused on work, not disturbed by family;
- share experience;
- gain experience;
- easier and faster to debug/solve problems;
Personal
- build communication skills;
- get out of comfort zone;
- more emotions and laugh;
- mental and emotional health improvement;
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motivation to groom self;
- meet people on the way to the office;
- physical activity on the way to the office;
- explore new places\restaurants near the office;
- be up to date with news in team/company/city/country;
- easier to join some sports section, as you already left cozy home in the morning :) ;
Cons 🔗
- time for commuting;
- time for getting dressed, etc.;
- get disturbed by colleagues;
- hard to conduct meetings with remote team members, no privacy;
- useless small talks;
- more time spent on lunch;
- more stress;
- no siesta time if required;
- decrease in productivity (IMHO).
Balance 🔗
To balance out the pros and cons of working from the office vs. working from home I incline to promote the hybrid approach - 30-40% office and 60-70% home.