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Post by deevolution »

mojuba wrote: post #125
scarecrowbob wrote: post #77

I'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…

That's work from home brilliantly summarized, very true. However, I have my doubts about productivity in smaller teams and startups. 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. Sometimes it is important to have an environment where information is exchanged dynami…

Look at the entire crypto space. $1.5T+ of value and growing and the vast majority of it is built remotely, sometimes anonymously, and it's one of the most free and spontaneous industries.

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Post by sethc2 »

74d-fe6-2c6 wrote: post #141
sethc2 wrote: post #138

The article brings up that for most a home office is a luxury. And i thought how is that possible, just use some extra room in your house. Then I remembered having a house and an extra room might be an easy thing to attain as a software developer, but that is only true because I don’t live in the Bay Area or Seattle. Yet in those areas you might have more fun on weekends. Just to see, I looked at prices for a round t…

> The article brings up that for most a home office is a luxury. > And i thought how is that possible, just use some extra room in your house. You made my day ... LOL ... yes, we all have a house with an extra room. That itself is not a luxury at all Having said that - I just work in the sleeping room and that works just fine as well.

Wait you don’t have an extra room to use as an office? What about in one of your other houses? One of them has got to have at least one empty room you could use right?

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Post by humen99 »

lowbloodsugar wrote: post #55
MattGaiser wrote: post #7

> but a whopping 50% still say the pain and discomfort of working from home is enough to send them back to the office. I want a breakdown of remote work preference by dollar amount spent on office chair. I think this would be revealing.

I use a $3999 Hale Aircomfort Zero Gravity Recliner with Air Massage [1]. I have three 27" monitors that are attached to a motorized sit/stand desk, purely so I can adjust their height as I adjust my depth of recline. This is an investment in my health that my employer doesn't seem to want to even discuss. Recent survey asked "Are you missing equipment that is only available at the office?" No, it's the other way aro…

In recline mode what do you use to type? I imagine you will need something additional to prop mouse and keyboard on.

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

Ancalagon wrote: post #374
DoingIsLearning wrote: post #157

I will throw in my 5 cents anecdata (I have a history of trauma/back injuries and pain). I spent about 100 euros on a kneeling chair, that had enough adjustment settings for my liking. I have been increasing my time on it steadily for the past few months, to the point that I now confortably work the whole day from it. It is a complete mind shift, I actively have to sustain my posture (and actively shift it), I don't…

Is this not horrible for your knees long term?!?

My experience is that it is a night and day difference to adjust all the angles of the chair to fit your body frame.

If you have pressure on your knees with these modern kneeling chairs it is possibly not correctly fitted.

When I sit on mine my body weight is distributed between my butt, thighs and shins equally, I am not pressing down on my knees in any measurable way. What I do feel is that my spine assumes a completely neutral position, like the feeling of balancing a weight on top of a long pole.

For full disclaimer I have no idea what (if any) will be the long term consequences of this on my knees. But to be brutally honest I would much rather have a full knee replacement in my old age than a spinal surgery/disk replacement.

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Post by throwaway675309 »

zz865 wrote: post #153
scarecrowbob wrote: post #77

I'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've just gotten really fast at swapping windows on my 15" laptop; How's your spine? my neck can't handle laptops any more.

Best thing is to get an external keyboard, otherwise the screen will be too low and your neck will be perpetually craned downward (same issue with prolonged smartphone usage), or you set the laptop on a pedestal so it's eye level, but now your typing like a praying mantis.

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Post by sudcha »

Living in shared apartments, most rooms in major cities have just the space for a bed, not even a table or desk.

I wonder if most of the people are working from bed not just being lazy, tired or exhausted, but also because they have no other option.

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Post by nightski »

breput wrote: post #99
nightski wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent over $1k on a Steelcase Leap several years ago and ironically switched to a Secretlab last year. It comes down to the fact that the Secretlab reclines a lot more and I find it far more comfortable. I've only been using it for a year and a half though, so who knows about long term.

Do you recline while you're working or do you mean in between work? I'm just curious because I've napped in it a few times but generally keep it locked at a slight incline and almost forget how adjustable it is.

I do, it's in recline mode all the time. I have a little foot stool I put my feet on while I work. Probably not the most healthy thing but it's really comfortable.

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Post by chovybizzass »

MattGaiser wrote: post #52
monkeybutton wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question, how do your coworkers perceive their own Jobs, do they share your perspective?

They agree (and agreed, as the napping was in a past job) that a lot of meetings we are taken do don’t help us do our jobs. Not sure if they nap during them.

I've repeated told my current employer there is no way I'm waking up for 6, 7 and 8am meetings. After two months the compromise is I stay up all night Sunday night and make the one 8:30am meeting on Mondays.

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Post by ImaCake »

Aeolun wrote: post #163
ImaCake wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>returning to the forest Which is basically a myth at this point. For most of the last 5000 years most people have had a much lower quality of life than people do today. It's not like things were nice before we sat infront of computers all day.

> It's not like things were nice before we sat infront of computers all day. But we didn’t have to sit in front of computers all day.

A lot of people still don't! For those of us who do, WFH gives us a bit more flexibility about how we spend the time in front of a screen and maybe a chance to fit in exercise where there used to be a commute.
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