What's the biggest problem you got during work from home?
I'm recently developing a shopping site with my co-workers, we both work from home. But we just found it harder to collaborate efficiently than we work together at the workplace. Especially when we found errors in the code after debug and test. Also it's more difficult to measure the work progress of everyone in the team. What do you think about woking remotely at home?
Lack of social interaction, and this is coming from an introverted person, It's difficult to quantify how valuable a mundane water cooler chat with a coworker can be but when you remove them entirely you really start to see how important these things were to maintain your sanity, I know there are slack's channels to these types of things but it's just not the same
Having a very intense hardship to focus. I've always been a very hardworking, studious person my whole life, at school, at work. Somehow since pandemic my overall productivity got a huge a hit with no sign of normalization so far. I'm very impressed by and jealous of people who increased their productivity during this period, it's been nothing short of a disaster for me.
Spending too much time in my house. Especially during cold months I realized there were days where I probably did less than 1000 steps around the house. The forced movement to and from work was adding to something and in my case it's the weak will to simply schedule a walk or do some exercise. Back to the office and I waste 2 hours on commute daily but I'm in a better physical shape.
My main issue is boundaries and when to stop working, though I think I would still have that if I worked in an office and took a computer home.
I will say that not seeing my team at all for the last two years has been a struggle. Getting together in person at least a couple of times a years is really good for team building. I have a family and a social circle outside of work so coworkers are not my source of social interactions but seeing them IRL makes you remember that you care about them as people, not just means to a shared end.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Have been WFH for almost 13 years now and would find it very hard to spend more than occasional time in an office.
I've gotten some of the best feedback on our software from coworkers over lunch or "water cooler" conversations. People rarely take the time to Slack over their ideas.
Having people around me makes me more likely to get my work done.
IMO zoom team socials just don't work
You can't have a normal conversation with 15 people in a meeting where only one person can talk at a time
Lots of awkward silence
I'm expected to go to 1:30 AM meetings.
Motivation for me is a big problem when working from home. I feel like I’m in a school class without a teacher to tell me off!
Living in an apartment.
Noise from renovation and neighbors just sucks so much. Wish i could move to a house.
so far so good, not going back