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I enjoy the time I spend with most of my coworkers on most of my jobs - when I'm not working. Watercooler conversations, kitchen talk etc.

As soon as I'm working, I find people talking around me, getting up, or even simply being in my field of view, very distracting.

Not an enjoyable situation when you're working with quite a bit of legacy code with both complex logic and a few somewhat complex algorithms.

I try to get in the office earlier than everyone on my team, and I try to at least have a look at tasks that require concentration at that time of the day.

I find the notion that employers are worried that you might slack off working from home absurd, as I believe I'm not some special unique snowflake but part of a large subset of people that function like that.