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If X programmer would make 100k/yr working at your location in San Francisco, does X programmer make 100k/yr if they are full-time remote in another city?
Great review/post. Remote work is the way of the future. A recent study from of IBM employees showed that if employees have a modest commute then they only need to work 38 hours/week before they start to have work/life balance issues. If employees work for a company that allows them to telecommute, they can work almost 60 hours per week before running in to work/life balance issues. That's a big deal. (That's not to…
The commute just killed me - added so much stress and load. It affected me at work (I'd come into the office feeling burnt out), and it affected me at home (I'd often arrive home deflated).
I don't really relate to the "soul sucking" idea of a commute. I work about a little over an hour away from my office and work from home several days a week. It's a nice trade-off between being in the office, where interaction happens, and being remote, where remote interaction happens, but also where I can hit substantially higher levels of productivity. While I could do without my evening commute, I generally ENJOY…
If you lived a mile away from work you could always choose to just drive around in circles for an hour every morning and listen to audiobooks.
Great review/post. Remote work is the way of the future. A recent study from of IBM employees showed that if employees have a modest commute then they only need to work 38 hours/week before they start to have work/life balance issues. If employees work for a company that allows them to telecommute, they can work almost 60 hours per week before running in to work/life balance issues. That's a big deal. (That's not to…
I can identify with that completely. The commute just killed me - added so much stress and load. It affected me at work (I'd come into the office feeling burnt out), and it affected me at home (I'd often arrive home deflated).
Previously, I would endure on a 4-hour daily commute by bus/metro, work on a noisy office, and for a lower pay to boot. No way I go back to that life.
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I can identify with that completely. The commute just killed me - added so much stress and load. It affected me at work (I'd come into the office feeling burnt out), and it affected me at home (I'd often arrive home deflated).
Is it the commute or the interruptions at work? I find that my commute is only 22km on 2 roads which takes about 35 minutes to drive, but it's the constant interruptions that slow me down so much. Working remotely frees me from those allowing me more time to concentration on the current task or project.
However, many tasks are tens of times easier to complete when you can walk over to somebody and get an answer to your problem. I don't care how many Basecamp, VoIP installs and standups you have--trying to do the same remotely doesn't compare.
Question about incomes and San Francisco start ups that offer full-time remote work: If X programmer would make 100k/yr working at your location in San Francisco, does X programmer make 100k/yr if they are full-time remote in another city?