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by AshleyGrant14 hours ago |
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upvoteby jrrv10 hours ago|
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Or, if you're like me then "if you work from anywhere in your house, then you're never at work."
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upvoteby mjcohen9 hours ago|
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Or you are always at work.
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upvoteby satvikpendem4 hours ago|
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Or you're never at work, like they said.
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upvoteby internet20002 hours ago|
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But most accurately, they're always at work.
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upvoteby phil212 hours ago|
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For most people, I'd reckon they are never at work.

There is a reason we know that remote learning is horrible for most people compared to in-classroom. We proved this decisively during COVID.

There is zero reason to believe that most folks magically change overnight from being incapable of remote learning to being highly capable remote workers. It's just not believable.

I hired remote workers in the 90's. It was a small fraction of the total candidate base that could successfully self-motivate and have the discipline to become high performers in such an environment over the long haul. Most of my interviewing and candidate vetting had to do with the remote aspect vs. technical skillset. Luckily around that time is when open source became a huge thing, so those projects presented a pool of pre-vetted candidates to hire out of. The rest of the candidate pool was a total crapshoot.

Remote working has become easier and the tooling and technology much better. But from where I'm standing - many folks do not take it seriously. Simple stuff like having backup Internet is a filtering question for me even today.

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upvoteby switchbak1 hours ago|
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“Simple stuff like having backup Internet” that sounds expensive. Who has room to back up the entire Internet?

Personally on the 0.2 days a year I have to worry about it, I just head to the coffee shop. Or you know … take a couple hours off (shock!).

Also I’ve spent literally decades working with very highly productive people exclusively remotely. None of us find this odd. Not sure why you have that level of suspicion/distrust. Granted, things have changed a lot since the 90s.

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upvoteby fHr1 hours ago|
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Backup imternet? Everyone has a cellphone to tether from these days no?
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upvoteby clickety_clack6 hours ago|
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I read it as though he’s “working”, like quiet quitting or something.
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upvoteby loehnsberg8 hours ago|
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On some days I wor from home but need to be present and the sun is out. So I take my laptop outside and work from there. I cannot do this with a desktop. Wouldn‘t the workaholic just stay inside and miss out?
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upvoteby mikestorrent32 minutes ago|
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Wireless headphones can get you halfway there if they have enough range for ya to walk around the house a bit. Airpods are quite good for this.
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upvoteby abustamam7 hours ago|
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Sometimes I'll just pop into a meeting from my phone and walk around. That said , I do have a laptop but only because I go to the office every so often . Otherwise, I work exclusively from my home office because that's where my home desktop computer is and I control everything on my work computer from there.
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upvoteby baxtr3 hours ago|
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Camera on or off?

I love taking meetings while walking but since Covid everyone has their camera on making sedentary meetings mandatory.

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upvoteby mikestorrent32 minutes ago|
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There's a lot of value in camera-on, but for some meetings, I love being camera off, nowhere near my computer, somewhere else in the house, watering plants or sweeping the floor. Sometimes it actually has me MORE engaged with the verbal aspect of the meeting, listening better, speaking better, because there's less distraction from Slack and Hacker News...
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