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What if remote work didn’t mean working from home?

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Post by throwaway3699 »

riskneutral wrote: post #51
throwaway3699 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An underlying issues nobody is talking about is real estate prices need to crash then. The quality of life outside a city is just so unbelievably better that I'm not going back to live in a box for hundreds of dollars a month, on a filthy street with no sense of community.

Quality of life outside the big city is better? Do you mean in the suburbs? Or in a small town? Or in a village? Or in the wilderness in a cabin?

Yes to all of those, for me at least. I'm not denying there are some upsides to city living (easy access to office being the big one) but I wouldn't move back to one without at least double the salary.

Re: What if remote work didn’t mean working from home?

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Post by steveklabnik »

peterbraden wrote: post #70
steveklabnik wrote: post #46

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> I thought “remote work” already meant this? Like anything, it's a spectrum. To some people, "travel" means "I drove to the next state over for the afternoon," and to some it means "I am going to this island down by Antarctica that requires getting a special government permit".

As long as the work gets done, why does it matter?

I agree!

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Post by egypturnash »

the_greyd wrote: post #69
egypturnash wrote: post #19

This has been my life for years except without the “renting a place” part. I work in cafes. I work in parks. I work sitting on a bench taking shelter from the rain on my way to somewhere else. I work anywhere I have space to take my Wacom tablet out of my bag and plug it into my laptop, and the desire to spend more time working today. I also work at home in my studio but getting away from the distractions of home is,…

Now that you can sit in inside spaces without a mask, I feel libraries and cafes are a real alternative for me! And this is me typing from a desk at a public library 10 minutes from my apartment. Can't express the amount of relief and joy I feel right now

ooh, thanks for reminding me about libraries, I got a lot of work done upstairs in the main branch of Seattle's library, I gotta get around to checking out the options in my new city.

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Post by CodeGlitch »

jenkstom wrote: post #54

This doesn't help those who have to work from home because of a disability. Finding excuses to discriminate against the disabled is toxic behavior. So I'm going to go ahead and label this article as "toxic" since it recommends a "solution" without mentioning that it's completely inappropriate for some people.

You're right in that it ignores the disabled, but is that toxic? Surely it would have to be outright hostile to the disabled for it to be "toxic".

What I think has happened is that the author just hasn't considered the less abled, which is a common mistake. Far from toxic though.

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Post by CodeGlitch »

golergka wrote: post #16

In nice weather, I just grab my laptop and go sit on a bench in a nearest park. Best work environment that I've ever had in my entire life.

Seriously how do you do this for any length of time? I would have neck and back ache and my hands would cramp up after just 1 day.

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Post by AlwaysRock »

thatjoeoverthr wrote: post #52
AlwaysRock wrote: post #41

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Oh wow. That is cool. What area are you in? I've considered this but I would need to move to a much lower COL area.

Poland. I’m paying about 500/mo (USD) for the place. That’s true, I forget how expensive many places are.

Yup. At that price I'd 100% do the same thing. That's awesome.

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Post by spaetzleesser »

egypturnash wrote: post #19

This has been my life for years except without the “renting a place” part. I work in cafes. I work in parks. I work sitting on a bench taking shelter from the rain on my way to somewhere else. I work anywhere I have space to take my Wacom tablet out of my bag and plug it into my laptop, and the desire to spend more time working today. I also work at home in my studio but getting away from the distractions of home is,…

I wish I could work like this but I like my fixed setup. I can’t focus while on the beach or in a cafe. I guess it also depends on the type of work.

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Post by devoutsalsa »

gajjanag wrote: post #60
bluefirebrand wrote: post #2

As long as I still have a quiet, private office and don't spend an hour+ per day in traffic and am not expected to give up evenings for "not mandatory but really you should show up to play politics" office happy hours, I don't care where I work. Currently working from home gives me all of that and I haven't been happier with a job ever.

Also, the ability to tune out of useless meetings by muting audio/video is great.

I wish Zoom had an in-app mute button. I'd love it if I didn't have to mute the entire computer.

EDIT: For MacOS, I found this: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

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