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Ways to make working remote work for you

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Re: Ways to make working remote work for you

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Post by r00fus »

fbonetti wrote: post #8
jotato wrote: post #2

I worked on a remote team for 18 months, and I think there is one more point the article could make. 10. Set an alarm for whatever time your workday ends and stick to it Our team was made up of 8 people and we all worked remote. We all had the problem of starting work between 8-9 and finding that we were still working come 9PM. For me, it was easy to loose track of time and not even realize how late it was. Setting a…

I don't mean this as a criticism towards you personally, but I've heard this same sentiment about remote working and I just don't get it. I could never see myself accidentally working until 9pm. I understand having a passion for programming/work, but aren't there other things in your life you would rather be doing, like seeing friends, going out for a bike ride, trying a new restaurant, having sex with your GF or wif…

It's real. I've done this, and feel guilty in the past because I've contributed to others' succumbing to this (esp. if they're in a more eastern timezone).

Also it's expectations management - how you manage your exceptions (for occasionally needing to stay available) will help define the rule.

Re: Ways to make working remote work for you

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Post by ddebernardy »

fbonetti wrote: post #8
jotato wrote: post #2

I worked on a remote team for 18 months, and I think there is one more point the article could make. 10. Set an alarm for whatever time your workday ends and stick to it Our team was made up of 8 people and we all worked remote. We all had the problem of starting work between 8-9 and finding that we were still working come 9PM. For me, it was easy to loose track of time and not even realize how late it was. Setting a…

I don't mean this as a criticism towards you personally, but I've heard this same sentiment about remote working and I just don't get it. I could never see myself accidentally working until 9pm. I understand having a passion for programming/work, but aren't there other things in your life you would rather be doing, like seeing friends, going out for a bike ride, trying a new restaurant, having sex with your GF or wif…

There's more to it than "passion for programming/work" or losing the notion of time that passes.

If you've teammates or clients who are a few timezones to the west of yours, then:

1. You only have so many things you can interact about in the couple of work hours you share with them (assuming any at all, when you're in Europe with Californian colleagues or clients), so it's occasionally tempting to work "just one more hour" to make sure a project moves forward.

2. You periodically get dragged into "this can't wait until tomorrow and you need to be here; no, seriously, you're needed and it can't wait until tomorrow!" types of discussions to sort out emergencies.

Re: Ways to make working remote work for you

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Post by ChoHag »

fbonetti wrote: post #8
jotato wrote: post #2

I worked on a remote team for 18 months, and I think there is one more point the article could make. 10. Set an alarm for whatever time your workday ends and stick to it Our team was made up of 8 people and we all worked remote. We all had the problem of starting work between 8-9 and finding that we were still working come 9PM. For me, it was easy to loose track of time and not even realize how late it was. Setting a…

I don't mean this as a criticism towards you personally, but I've heard this same sentiment about remote working and I just don't get it. I could never see myself accidentally working until 9pm. I understand having a passion for programming/work, but aren't there other things in your life you would rather be doing, like seeing friends, going out for a bike ride, trying a new restaurant, having sex with your GF or wif…

> I could never see myself accidentally working until 9pm.

I think this happens, amusingly, largely because of the efforts to which remote workers go to separate their personal and work lives.

If you shut yourself off from the world, don't be surprised when you're unaware what the world is doing. I've never made a hard distinction between my work and my real life and my life has never let me make the mistake of giving a company more of my time than they've earned.

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