[beat]

I'm one of those who probably cannot be convinced to go back to the office. Why would I want to go back to losing an hour and a half a day to commuting? What problem does this solve for me? I find most aspects of my job are actually easier when working remotely - in particular, being able to get people to leave me the hell alone for those two or three hour blocks of concentration. I used to have to go hide at the office in order to work without someone asking me a question every fifteen minutes.

[agrippanux]

When I was in the Bay Area, I was commuting 2-2.5 hours a day from Lafayette to the city, on BART, for almost 10 years. I moved to San Diego and the commute was still an hour+ most days (20 minutes there, 45+ minutes back).

Every time I think, well would be nice to go back into the office, I think about all the wasted time just getting to one and I am disabused of the notion rather quickly.

[ttul]

I'm saving 3-4 hours a day now. There's no way I'm going back to commuting. At most, I'll go in a day or two a week for meetings and face time.

[scatters]

How do you prevent people interrupting you on chat?

[beat]

I can't. But I do find they're less likely to interrupt in chat than they are in a physical space.

Also, it's a lot easier for me to finish what I'm doing before answering a chat than it is to finish what I'm doing and answer someone standing next to me. Although I'm known for putting a finger up in the air at them and making them wait.

[vidanay]

Close the chat client?