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by badestrand
2216 days ago
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> Work form "anywhere" makes way, way less sense; one must be hard-pressed by circumstances to choose it. I like your analytical approach and you are right: why go to a coworking space when there's not much difference to a real office anyway? I think the answer for me lies in the flexibility: In a coworking space I can come in or leave at whatever time I want. When I have an unproductive day I can go home at noon and when I feel like working on Saturday I will do so. Offices just have this peer pressure for Mo-Fr 9-6 that you can't evade and coworkers or your manager will raise their brows if you deviate from it. Even in coworking spaces I actually work a very regular schedule, but I just dislike not having the possibility to break out of it. |
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Nobody cares where you physically are, as long as you do your work and are available for communication. But people do care very much whether you're available for questions / quick to react if something happens, and can produce something by an agreed-upon date.
That is, stopping my work at noon because I can't persuade myself to work would be frowned upon, whether I were in the office or WFH, unless I'd say that I'm not feeling well. (Which is probably a good way to frame it.)
Likely I'm just quite privileged by now; this is the norm around me now, and was the norm for maybe 10 years, but definitely won't be the norm 20 years ago, when I was not a senior enough engineer yet.