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by fcatalan 4560 days ago
I've been working from home for 8 months this last year and point 2 was the biggest pain. Even after setting some initial rules, there was this almost imperceptible but continous pressure to do stuff just because you were at home. It's hard to stop because every little request or exception looks perfectly reasonable and is asked in good faith, so you feel like a jerk if you invoke the rules at every chance. The pressure kept building up to the point that I was always irritable and it was hard to get any work done if I had a chore or errand in the horizon that day. So at the end I was glad to go back to the office.