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Is it really a bad analogy though?
Is it? What do you think yourself?
It might not be, considering one need money to live.
38% of remote workers work from bed
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Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed
#302I've been working remote for about 10 years. I've had "real" offices. I've worked in open-plan offices. I've had a home office. I've worked from bed. There are tons of good ways to do it. Lately I swap between a kitchen table and a chair on my porch. I no longer use multiple screens, I've just gotten really fast at swapping windows on my 15" laptop; I've gotten good at figuring out how wide my terminal window breaks…
> I couldn't put on my laundry and hang it up while I listen to other folks on the daily stand up.
Yeah, there's a secret value in low level distractions: they prevent higher level distractions. When you go into a deep focus environment for that daily, chances are your mind will focus deeply on something entirely unrelated.
Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed
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This is the most out of touch comment I have seen in a long time, even for hackernews. A lot of people with office jobs are making $35k-$40k a year. You're talking about 1/4th of their take home salary, and $120 a month is an expense that at least 50% of America couldn't afford and most don't have $7k on hand to blow.
If you get a 10% gain in productivity, the chair/desk already paid for itself. It also replaces both a chair and a desk, so the total cost is less than $7k. > You're talking about 1/4th of their take home salary Over a life span of 5 years, that's less than a 10% of take-home salary. Non-Ergonomic chairs have a high future cost for your health but I guess doing that math is not humans strongest feature.
10% gain in productivity =/= 10% gain in compensation, most people already have a chair/desk so replacing their function does not automatically make it cheaper. Seems like you're doing more of a math problem instead of applying this to actual people.
Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed
#304Ugh, I could never. I love my spine way too much to do this.
This is just asking for back problems.
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#305Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed
#306Ugh, I could never. I love my spine way too much to do this. This is just asking for back problems.
I've been WFH for over a decade now. For a couple of years I worked from a recliner because I had back problems. Something similar to this:
Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed
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> Being in the same space physically I think speeds up a lot of things. In small teams and esp. at early stage startups your whole day is a meeting where things are discussed and resolved spontaneously. Who's going to write the fine-detail code if they whole day is a meeting? It may change from case to case, but for some small teams the biggest challenge is to produce something so good that it out-competes the produc…
> Who's going to write the fine-detail code if they whole day is a meeting? Reminds me of the time I worked at an early stage startup. I used to take official vacation time, and disappear from company collaboration tools to get real work done.
That’s really awful. These companies shouldn’t be allowed to exist. I mean, of course they always will, but many exist that aren’t like this.
Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed
#308Yeah I did that, when I was really tired and needed to lie down every so often. But it's not really conducive to programming. Mostly I work from a desk. I don't think it's too expensive. I'm not paid that much but I had no trouble affording a 400eur second hand sitting standing desk
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Is $7k really expensive even for non-programming jobs? Assuming a 5-year lifespan, that comes at around $120/month which should be affordable to most of the developed world. I have another theory: The reason we didn't adopt such ergonomic setups is because they look "weird". We are quite used to sitting in chairs and it's not quite far from sitting on a rock. A customized ergonomic setup will pay itself in quite a sh…
Yes, it is. For that same amount of money, in my country, i could purchase 2 used cars, or just buy food for about 3 years (without eating out), or pay rent for almost 2 years. Alternatively, such a setup would cost me almost 5 month's worth of net salaries (as a software developer in one of the countries that people outsource to) and that is before any additional shipping costs. Such setups might make sense for peop…
> or pay rent for almost 2 years.
What country is that?
Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed
#310For the past 2 weeks, I've been working from a treadmill. It has been incredible. I got a small under-the-desk treadmill for my standing desk and I walk at about 2.5km/hour and get around 20,000 steps in per day. It has improved my mood, my clarity, and also has improved my sleep (because I'm tired of walking). I also find it easier to focus on tasks for some reason. If you can make a setup like this work for you, I…
In my experience typing while walking has not been an issue but using a mouse with moderate to high sensitivity can be challenging. Using a gaming feature such as "sniper" mode to toggle mouse sensitivity when precise clicking is necessary solved the problem.