[Beached]

I work from home... Its much nicer then that place, I dont have noisy people running around and talking on the phones all day, unlimited food and drinks all day, and i get to keep my stuff laying out on the desk without fear of it getting stolen or messed with!

I never understood why people who can choose to work from anywhere, choose to pay a monthly commitment to go to a co working space, instead of choosing to work in a low cost area where there money can go SO much farther.

As a mobile startup, you can opt to live outside of a major city being able to leech talent from the talent hub, and make your money go SO much farther.

[krisdol]

I get depressed cabin-fevery if I spend many days working from home. Going to a cafe, outdoors, or any change of scenery generally helps. I think part of it is that I've officially married my relaxing escape from the office with all the bad features of the office, and that takes a mental toll after a while.

I know others that do, but salaried or not, I'm a 9-5er and I don't degrade my hourly rate by putting in extra hours unless they're absolutely necessary for an infrequent crunch. For me, seeing colleagues that put in 15 hour days at soulless BigCo detracts significantly from the bigger salaries they may be getting.

Making my home the office is no different from making the office my home, as makes it feel like I never mentally stop working.

Plus they have better chairs and internet than I'd care to buy

[Beached]

"Making my home the office is no different from making the office my home, as makes it feel like I never mentally stop working."

How quotable, I found it hard to separate work and home while working at home, took me a year to get it right, but after 1 year of doing so, I've found a few tricks and with a bit of discipline, I have been able to completely build a wall between work and home even though they are the same place. I will say it wouldn't have been possible if my boss didn't also work from home and encourage it. If my boss expected me to keep up with emails and phone calls after 5:30pm, I would probably hate the home office.

[themartorana]

"Making my home the office is no different than making my office my home..."

Brilliantly said. Leave home for living your life outside of work. As much as I am my work in so many ways, being able to have a zone that is (usually) free of work is very important.

To me, anyway :)

[karmajunkie]

I'm with you on working in a cheaper locale. You lost me at working from home all the time. I'm guessing you don't have kids?

[Domenic_S]

I've got a 2-year-old and my successful founder friend has two under 4, we both WFH full time. Although I think he has a co-working space within biking distance in case he really needs to get out.

Teach your kids boundaries young!

[Beached]

I dont have kids, I can see kids being at home during working hours may through a wrench into my rant. Especially at a young age when they dont understand what I'm doing.

[ryandrake]

I can't work productively from home:

1. Young children don't understand daddy having to separate work time from home time

2. Wife that doesn't get that just because I'm in the house, it doesn't mean I can babysit or help with household chores

3. Crazy dog barking every time a car passes outside the front door

4. Lack of a dedicated space (in an already small Bay Area living space) for doing work

5. Commuting is my way to mentally get myself in and out of work mode, driving around the block doesn't cut it

6. Lack of regular, daily human interaction (even if it's just co-workers) is depressing after a day or so

7. My typical work role has me having to hunt people down who don't respond to E-mail/text/etc.. can't effectively do that from home

[Beached]

1. I don't have kids, it sounds like I should enjoy WFH while I'm young!

2. Wife also is a full time WFH, ironically we exchange very little dialog other then around lunch time during the day. I'm lucky that she "Gets it" in my case.

3. no pets,

4. we have no dedicated office, in fact my desk is in the living room, and hers is in the bedroom. We relish our frugality though and every time we are about to complain, we look at how much a 2 or 3 bedroom apt costs!

5. I'm impressed this does the trick for you. Driving / commuting just gets me all riled up, I cant stand how they let other people on the road!

6. This was SOO hard during my first year. I was definitely thrown into a slump shortly after I made the switch. I now have a regularly occurring social event 4 days a week that gets me around other people which helps me stay social.

7. Since all my co-workers are also work from home, Email, Phone or gchat usually extracts a reply immediately, even if its "On phone, will get back to you in 1 hour"

[Domenic_S]

You have to train your housemates to respect your space, and having a dedicated home office really helps. One of our bedrooms is a combined guest room/office and a closed door means "don't bother daddy".

IMO the best usecase for WFH is to live in a lower-cost area. If I was in SF or SJ metro instead of the Bay Area suburbs I'd probably go to the office just to hang out with people, cause that's kind of the point of living in SV.