I'm recently developing a shopping site with my co-workers, we both work from home. But we just found it harder to collaborate efficiently than we work together at the workplace. Especially when we found errors in the code after debug and test. Also it's more difficult to measure the work progress of everyone in the team. What do you think about woking remotely at home?
Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#2Having people around me makes me more likely to get my work done.
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#3I'm expected to go to 1:30 AM meetings.
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#4Lack of social interaction, and this is coming from an introverted person, It's difficult to quantify how valuable a mundane water cooler chat with a coworker can be but when you remove them entirely you really start to see how important these things were to maintain your sanity, I know there are slack's channels to these types of things but it's just not the same
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#5Having a very intense hardship to focus. I've always been a very hardworking, studious person my whole life, at school, at work. Somehow since pandemic my overall productivity got a huge a hit with no sign of normalization so far. I'm very impressed by and jealous of people who increased their productivity during this period, it's been nothing short of a disaster for me.
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#6I've gotten some of the best feedback on our software from coworkers over lunch or "water cooler" conversations. People rarely take the time to Slack over their ideas.
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#7Lack of social interaction, and this is coming from an introverted person, It's difficult to quantify how valuable a mundane water cooler chat with a coworker can be but when you remove them entirely you really start to see how important these things were to maintain your sanity, I know there are slack's channels to these types of things but it's just not the same
Totally agree with you, but I absolutely refuse to go back to the office. I want to socialize OUTSIDE of work even if it's work related. I love my freedom at home and when my company decides developers need to be in the office again I will definitely be moving on.
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#8I've gotten some of the best feedback on our software from coworkers over lunch or "water cooler" conversations. People rarely take the time to Slack over their ideas.
Slack conversations are rarely spontaneous. You might text some of your "work friends", but other than that we typically text people purposefully. I never get to chat we people from other totally separate teams about anything, and forcing that to happen digitaly feels... Well, forced. It's really awkward and I crave that the most.
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#9Spending too much time in my house. Especially during cold months I realized there were days where I probably did less than 1000 steps around the house. The forced movement to and from work was adding to something and in my case it's the weak will to simply schedule a walk or do some exercise. Back to the office and I waste 2 hours on commute daily but I'm in a better physical shape.
Re: Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
#10I'm expected to go to 1:30 AM meetings.
That's fucked up. I hope the job is worth it.