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Originally Posted by spike021
Not everybody has a large house with enough extra rooms to have a separate office.
I work out of my living room. Which means I'm basically in the same place 24/7 except when I sleep in my bedroom at night or go out. I also live alone. Which means it's the same shit every day.
Maybe I'm not in a 10x10 cell or whatever but it definitely can feel like being trapped in one place all the time.
Plus, communication isn't nearly as easy sometimes as when you're in the same room with people.
I'm almost positive I already gave these reasons in that other thread, but:
1. as good as internet conference calls can be, there's always some lag or mic issues so you're bound to speak over other people at least once per call, which ruins the flow of conversation. you can't read body/facial expressions, you don't know if a pause in speech is due to the lag/mic issues or simply because said person likes to pause while speaking.
2. it's also easier to get someone's attention at the right time. it's much more obvious when someone is heads-down and deeply focused on a task or when they're more mentally available to chat about work. versus using chat software I have teammates (and my boss) who _always_ have their status set to away and are inconsistently (un)available so it's difficult to know when a good time is to speak to them. Yeah, you can ping them and wait for them to respond when they're ready, but it's easy for someone to see a message come in, "read" it and think "I'll come back to this later", and then forget.
etc etc.
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Yeah I mean my Fiancée works from home, and I do too when I'm programming, we have seperate offices but it definitely blurs the line between work and home. Especially when you are a room away from the computer it's hard to say no. Like nah it's 7pm we were going to have wine and watch a movie I can't check on that...
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