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by deemster 996 days ago
If you're willing to share, why was working remote the most stressful thing you've ever done?
3 comments

Not OP, but not everyone has an ideal environment to work from home. They might be in a small apartment with two adults trying to both get work done without disturbing the other. They might have young children that need full-time supervision.

They could leave to find a coffee shop or something similar to work from but not everyone enjoys working in that type of environment or has a job where that would be appropriate. My wife, for example, works on things that require a security clearance and are on a years long secretive development cycle. Having those conversations overheard in a public space could be problematic. By the time you get to the point of renting a workspace to get a little privacy, you might as well let your employer pay for it and go back to the office.

Not OP, but it's lonely and it never ends. I live in a college town with a short commute and a neat downtown - a place I wanted to be.

But it's Michigan and salaries here are really low. Hard to work for a local company.

Usually it's either living with people who don't respect that you're at work even though you're at home or a company culture that doesn't know how to engage with remote workers.

Usually both.

A lot of people forget the importance of having a door to their home office, preferably one you can lock.