The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices • Hacker News Board

Re: The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices

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Post by gbear605 » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

RandoHolmes wrote: post #143

gbear605 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...perhaps other than the breakfast part, that’s exactly what most teenagers do every morning (at least in non-COVID) times. Certainly children don’t, if you’re only talking about prepubescent children, but they’re also not particularly relevant to a discussion about working from home.

> Certainly children don’t, if you’re only talking about prepubescent children, but they’re also not particularly relevant to a discussion about working from home. Then I think it's pretty clear that's not what I meant when I said children... It becomes even more clear when you realize I said "or their own car", or did you think it was my belief that 5 year olds were driving themselves to school?

I had covered teenagers earlier in my comment, and so I wanted to cover younger children with the rest of the comment.

Re: The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices

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Post by pelasaco » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 7:40 PM UTC

bluntfang wrote: post #30

pelasaco wrote: post #7

I'm doing home-office since 2013 and I'm doing fine. Have my surf and social life in my routine. Work focused, produce more and spend less time trying to get stuff done. Cook daily is hard but sometimes a joy and a must if you want to leave healthy. I would never come back to a 5 days in the office routine. Never.

>Cook daily is hard but sometimes a joy and a must if you want to leave healthy. Hit this on the head. Since I've started working remotely, ~1 year before the pandemic, I've really seen my diet improve. I eat clean. Fresh vegetables and grains are much cheaper than food truck/restaurants. I do put in hours though, but I haven't timed it. I usually can pull off cooking during my lunch break or during the 2-3 monthly a…

i eat much more vegetables and and fruits and much less meat than before. Brew your own coffee (BYOC) instead of the enterprise machine and the option to seat outside while reading some paper or thinking about your code is priceless.

Re: The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices

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Post by golergka » Sun, Sep 06, 2020, 10:54 PM UTC

supernova87a wrote: post #5

WFH has a huge difference in result depending on who you are, when you are (in your career), and where you are in a company (of organization). -- For the budding young developer who can't wait to show ideas to teammates and demonstrate being a go-getter by asking random questions and finding unaddressed issues to innovate on, WFH might be terrible. You're going to schedule time to fortuitously run into the senior per…

Oh, and for a senior developer from a eastern europe with excellent english, communication skills and previous remote experience, this is a godsend.

Re: The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices

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Post by kelnos » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:32 AM UTC

jankotek wrote: post #119

kelnos wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but childcare being closed and the requirement to work from home are being caused by the same thing this time. Childcare being closed in regular times is a rare occurrence; while it's annoying, people manage to work around it. Yes, that can be stressful, but it's just for one day out of however many. Right now it's every day. If childcare was running at normal capacity but parents were still working from home,…

Not really, many people still have to go to work, even with childcare closed. WFH is a privilige, not burden.

Right, I'm specifically talking about the parents who are working from home, not those who aren't.

Those who aren't have extra things to be stressed about, like their increased risk of exposure to COVID-19.