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by puranjay 4109 days ago
Honest question: what is your home situation like? Are you married? Kids?

In my experience, older folks with kids and a spouse tend to love the work from home thing. Younger people tend to get bogged down by the lack of social interaction.
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91bananas 4109 days ago
Not OP but, I have been at home for the last year. Married with a kid and another on the way. ~30 years old.

I love it.

I do at times feel the loneliness, but we have worked hard as a team to make it possible for me to be "in the office" as much as possible. We set up a persistent Google Hangout on a 60" TV that I can jump in at any time and be a part of the rest of the non-remote team.

I love being able to rush in to my kid's room when he wakes up in the morning, saying goodnight when he takes his nap. I love eating from my own kitchen. I love working outside of home.

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tribaal 4109 days ago
Well, just like the other user who answered you (hi, lifestyle clone!) I'm married, One kid, one on the way.

Like I said, I love the choice it brings me - I don't have to work form home (I can use a coworking space for instance), but I get to decide every morning. I tend to go to a coworking space or to friends/friendly startups/friendly companies to hang out about one day a week, but it can be much more.

One tidbit: almost the whole company is remote (600 people!), so we're all organized around that, and it probably makes it easier.

So my personal take away: it's about the choice it gives you :)

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puranjay 4109 days ago
> One tidbit: almost the whole company is remote (600 people!)

I'm intrigued. I was under the impression remote work was only feasible for smaller startups. The only fully distributed companies I know have < 30 employees.

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tribaal 4109 days ago
I work for Canonical (www.canonical.com)

We have some offices and legal presence in some countries that require it, but most of the engineers are work-from-home only. My team is completely work-from-home, including manager, product manager, and QA engineers. We're 12 in 7 different countries and 3 continents (used to be 4 :) )

Only designers and some sales people have a hard requirement to be in the office, AFAIK.

EDIT: for the sake of my personal pride I updated the numbers of countries my team is distributed to. it was WRONG. I hate wrong! :)

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tribaal 4109 days ago
From another thread, it seems automatic (300+ employees) is pretty big on remote workers as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232565

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