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... or would that fit in the category 'About the same' 
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But working as a team on a web has many problems, You can`t bring your server home, and I think the important thing is you will have communication issue with your team mate
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... and especially no office politics!!!
effort saved getting to work is effort you can put into the job at hand (or leisure, whichever your flavor).
i work 90% at home and is much more comfortable work environment than an office i think... and no one complains if you come in with just a pair of shorts on
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Depends the day...
on mondays i really work fine at job, the department works fine, all work as a team. rest of the week, as if I was a guru and all knew about it, I am the telephone of the hope three quarters parts of the time, and i do not work continously. Because it, when i work at home, always that i work, i work continously and 100% productive. at job for me this is virtually imposible
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Ok, as always, but I think we can have two situations:
1) People that are used to work at home, so the office is a well defined space, and all documents and books are located there
2) People (like me) that TRY to work at home, transferring DVD full of source to syncronize, USB Key to make activation, etc.
In the second case I think that it's really hard to be as productive as at work, some notes:
a) at home I have a 640Kbits ADSL, at work a 10Mbits fiber
b) at work of course the computer is faster and dircetly connected to the server with full source ( I always copy all source of the current project and remember at home that a similar code was written for another project...)
c) I don't have all tools (many are expensive and wants an activation key - like NuMega Bounds Checker)
d) It takes time to copy project, recompile at home, ...work... , copy modified files and resync at work (Ok I can use source control over internet but I prefer to leave source out of internet servers)
e) All books that I need are at work, independently from the number I've taken home.
f) I have a 17" monitor instead a 24" + 19"
g) The deskjet printer is sloooower then the network laser printer with Front/Rear
h) There always something interesting around...
I realize that less than 2 hours at home is a loss of time, I'd prefere to answer email, obviously surf codeproject, and read some magazine or manuals.
Over 2 hours... I don't known, I don't remember such a long time...
Davide
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Yes, I can see where you can have problems working from home, but I believe that is because you are trying to recreate your work environment at home.
I used to do that (and even did that successfully), but now I just use something like Remote Desktop over VPN so that I am on my work environment from home.
Peace!
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Thats interesting. For me a few of your reasons are reversed...
a) My cable internet connection is 2 to 10 times faster that the bandwidth I get at work
b) My home computer is faster than my work computer. Source is always available on both sides because I have a cvs server on my laptop that contains my source.
c) I have all the software tools I need on both sides.
d) I dont copy the project so ...
e) This may be a problem as usually the book I need is not where I am...
f) I have dual 21" monitors at home while only dual 19"s at work..
g) My color laser printer is as fast as my highly used 47 PPM network copier / printer when you consider that there are always jobs in the queue or someone is printing 100 copies of a 50 page document...
h) This one for me is a tie because at work there are a lot more distractions that keep me from my task (phone calls, visits to my office from coworkers, meetimgs...)
After I say all of this there are a few times when its much better to work at the office:
1) Testing - Its not like I have 20 pcs at home I can test my stuff on at once..
2) Working with Specialized Hardware - Its difficult to lug around a 100lb $40,000 medical imaging digitizer and a few $10,000 5 mega pixel monitors.
John
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Yeap truly it depends. It's not so much the location per se as it is the location of _resources_. Where is your lab? Where are your books and documents? Your software disk media? Your _team_?
Sometimes it's very important to have the team work in close physical proximity together (nothing beats looking straight in the eye; an actual smile, etc.). More so when physical resources are limited and have to be shared.
I am a lot more productive not because of home (where i work now), but when it's past actual office hours and in the wee hours of the morning.
The melody of logic will always play out the truth. ~ Narumi Ayumu, Spiral
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Home is where I keep my anti-productivity units (wife and 17 month old daughter). They do a good job of making sure the work stays at work.
Charlie
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I have worked from home on a regular basis (part- and full-time) for three different employers now.
For sutations where the wife and kids are at home (she usually works and they are usually in daycare) with I am working from home, we have an understanding:
I am not here; I am at work!
So she knows not to come into my home office and bother me for things like putting trash into the garage or moving a heavy box for her. I can do that stuff after I "get home from work". If it is something that I could not do from the normal office, I cannot do it from the home office.
Now, if someone takes a fall and is bleeding, I can come and help out. But it is understood that I am not at her disposal while I am working.
Your family has to respect both you and the work you are doing so that they will not create unnecessary distractions.
Generally, I find myself usually more productive, because the time normally spent driving to work is put to use actually working, even with family at home.
Peace!
-=- James
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I'm sure I would be able to come to a similar understanding if needed to work at home for some reason. However, I work at an office away from home, so any work attempted at home is only here and there and isn't scheduled in any way.
Also, my home computer is in the same room as my wife's computer (though she uses hers mostly for surfing the internet and email) and I usually don't want to "ban" her from the room unless there is a darn good reason for it. And when she's in the room, my daughter can't be far behind. A 17 month-old girl can be a handful, to say the least.
Charlie
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and work at the office.
I found that most of the time, I think of solutions of some problems when I'm commuting from work, and when I get home, I simply send an email to myself to remind me of that thought.
Maximilien Lincourt
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Maximilien wrote:
I think at home ... and work at the office.
I suppose I'm the same, but it's nice to be able to put some code together when you have time or want to implement something cool.
I'll be going it a bunch more when we move our project from VSS  to Subversion as I'll be able to "get latest" 24x7.
Cheers,
Simon
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Definitely! We moved to subversion 10 months ago and life is sweet. I could even work on the project 7000 miles away using a dial-up connection and a VPN without any trouble. Unfortunately ANKH on .NET still has a long way to go.
Home is good. Bed is better.
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Usually I think of a solution when I am away from work and end up implementing it from home. I think better there.
I answered that I do about the same amount of work. Considering all the work done at home is after business hours 
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Mainly because home is for family, but when I do work from home I tend to get distracted by the WC3 icon in my shortcut bar. 
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Nitron wrote:
I tend to get distracted by the WC3 icon in my shortcut bar.
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Nitron wrote:
but when I do work from home I tend to get distracted by the WC3 icon
Does it happen to get distracted by the WC3 icon bar when you are at work?
Regards,
Alexandru Savescu
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I never work from home.
However, I am most productive on Saturdays (there are very few people at the office) and especially on Sundays (when there's only me here).
modified on Monday, November 29, 2010 6:00 AM
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chopeen wrote:
I am most productive on Saturdays (there are very few people at the office) and especially on Sundays (when there's only me here).
Three words: Get. A. Life.
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I think it is common for programmers to work weekends, at home or at the office.
But yeah, make sure you have a life too.
regards,
Paul Watson
South Africa
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Indeed. At one time, when I was in my twenties, I would work 60, 70, sometimes even 80 hours a week, seven days a week. I remember one project where I didn't take a single day off for over four months.
Did it help the project get completed any faster? No.
(it was a case of 'follow the bouncing requirements')
Did it make a difference in how my employer treated me? No.
Did it make a difference in my pay? No.
Did it improve my life in any way? Hell, no.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well I don't know about common, but I would say it happens more than it should. There are new battles against companies taking advantage of saleried employees. This has been brought to light by EA abusing their developers and making them work 80+ hour work weeks. There is a point when it becomes 'slave' labor.
Don't accept working on weekands and extended hours as being common. Not only is it bad for you, but it becomes bad for the company because it has been proven that working extended hours lower's productivity because of the drain it takes on the developers. More bugs are introduced and things are not thought out very clearly.
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Drew
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