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It varies, working from home can be a horrible isolating trap and simultaneously much more productive and appealing.

Especially in the winter months, if your work day is now at your home with no intrinsic reason to go anywhere else, you wake up in darkness and first leave the house in darkness, meanwhile the agency you'd otherwise have is impeded by people watching your Slack status wondering where you are, it's not exactly ideal. With no physical difference between work and home, you and up basically always being at home, which can be dreadful at times.


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phantasmishlast Monday at 5:28 AM

I’m not sure how leaving home before sunrise then arriving home after sunset, to go spend all your daylight hours in an office, is any better. At least every room in my house has ample natural light…

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mgarfiaslast Monday at 4:40 AM

some of us like that.

I get 90% of my social interaction needs from my wife/kids/dogs. The rest I get from going to the gym and lifting.

OTOH: i also live in the woods.

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wiseowiselast Monday at 5:12 AM

> by people watching your Slack status wondering where you are

Find a better workplace, Jesus.