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Looking ta these results I must conclude that working at home is for employers disadvantageous and my company will rethink this issue. Perhap Home working is not a good idea at all.
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The survey ask about the biggest challenge with working at home.
It wasn't about the productivity at home versus in the company.
I have two small kids that are a challenge for me, but being in the company is sometimes louder than here. And the mood when I get a distraction because my kid is wanting to show me something or to play a bit is (at least for me) less annoying than any other noises / conversations in big offices where it is not only the distraction but the time afterwards that you need to calm down again, at the end, they are adults and supposed to be more "civilized" and respectful
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Have you considered that those new to it are still adapting? As they get used to it productivity will be restored, perhaps improved, in my opinion.
It's easier for me to "get in early" and "work late" when I can get on with real life at the very same time. So - the greedy employer will see that as a bonus.
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I usually have my groceries delivered, because I don't drive. But now everyone is doing it, so I have to go out to eat. My last order included some chicken nuggets and hotdog buns (and other things that were out of stock), but no hotdogs (out of stock). What good are hotdog buns without hotdogs?
It is 6 minutes after midnight, so I am going to check if I can get a delivery tomorrow.
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Working from home. 
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Hard to stop looking at the news and markets and CV maps.
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I get up with my wife and start working when she leaves. I keep working until she comes home. Easily 10 to 11 hours.  Gotta stop doing that (she's at home now too so that should help).
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Was chatting with a coworker in China last week (I'm in midwestern USA). He said they were going back to working at work this week.
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Motivation is a problem when I go to the office too.
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Wrong employer?
Wrong Job?
Wrong attitude?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Probably mostly #2. People around here don't understand the basics of good software development.
Branching's too hard. MVC is too hard, let's stick with web forms. EF is too hard, ADO.NET is superior.
Everyone should have access to production. Herp-a-derp requirements.
In fact, I just got a response to my question about placing things in jira: The project in which these tasks are put is "XXX upgrade" (XXX is the name of one of our POSes. You can take the "S" as software, or the other.) Anyway, the changes we're making not only have nothing to do with XXX, but there is another project for the things we're trying to build.
So I asked, "shouldn't these be in project YYY." The response I got was, "it's ok to leave them here, this is an upgrade."
Sigh.
But nobody can figure out why things are in constant chaos.
Of course, that environment tends to sour me on nos 1 and 3, so it's on me too.
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#2 I think it is in your hand (I think. Ok, thinking about my age that can become hard)
Quote: Branching's too hard
Branching not a problem also for me old man. But merging I have big problems with it 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I've been doing the work from home thing for about a year now. I did go into the office once every two weeks for sprint planning but that was about it.
Now my wife and my oldest son are working from home too and they are cramping my routine.
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I've WFH for periods as long as 6 months. At first it's nice, especially NOT having a commute longer than walking from my kitchen to my home office.
But after a while I appreciate actually seeing people .... yeah, I know. Weird sentiment from an IT guy, right?
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At my job for about nine months out of the year I work Wednesday through Sunday and I normally work from home at least two days a week, sometimes more. Consequently there’s times when I’m not sure what day of the week it is. I have to say, though, normally having Monday and Tuesday off is really nice. Stores are practically empty, I can schedule appointments without having to take any time off from work.
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yeah, sure at work i have a large desk, 2 (1080) monitors.
But at home my chair is damn expensive, 4k monitor, which i am not yet used to do work-work programming on, spent a good hour changing a bunch of settings on the works laptop to play nicly on the 4k. mouse speed, resolution, icon scaling,
compltly forget how works setup set for "default" white balanaced display, but home monitor is more orange tinted, or less blue light.
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I am more productive at home. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I always used to look forward to the occasional WFH days - much, much more productive (in a mainly support role these days and people seem to think rocking up to my desk is acceptable )
But now! Jeez, guys, go away with the Teams calls already!
I've had to book publicly visible slots in my diary entitled "NO TEAMS MEETINGS OR CALLS" (if you're interested, it doesn't work).
I'd mark myself as "Away" but Big Brother and all that jazz and I still want to get paid.
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Put other "important" meetings with a colleague that hates be distracted too.
If you don't attend the disturbing ones, they will think you are in the other one.
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I like working from home, and a few (maybe more) years ago, when snowed in for a week I wrote a massive chunk of the project I was working on because I get distracted more at work than at home. Phones ringing, colleagues chatting, bosses wanting meetings, emails, you name it. I have none of that at home. But eventually I need to talk to someone...anyone?
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daleofcourse wrote: But eventually I need to talk to someone...anyone?
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You are welcome 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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As I tell people who (until recently) envied that I was pushed int work-from-home-we-need-your-space, the refrigerator is always . . . well . . . there.
I went from about a quart of strong coffee from wake-up until dinner to all the nice things that go with it - cookies with the coffee. Making burrito-wraps of all sorts. Nuking things.
And on the other side of it all - there's no real order in the day. I mean, I do work roughly regular hours but not having to dress/shave/drive and all that other stuff blurs all time constraints.
And a last thing - missing the (few) people at work I liked.
Funny - I zone in whilst working and don't notice the world around and its people, yet, I do like them to be there for a walk-about.
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I've had my own home based business since 1994. Working from home has just become natural for me. I used to live with a couple of other people, but they pretty much respected my time when I was in my office working. My office was a well defined area in a separate part of the house. I then moved into an apartment by myself and had a separate room specifically for my office.
Hobbies have always been my biggest weakness. A lot of genealogy can now be done online through the computer and it is one of my 2 biggest hobbies. It is a huge distraction because I am always looking something up. Model Railroading is my other big hobby. At the house my trains were just a few feet away from my office, and always a distraction. I had to walk past them to get to my office. It was just too easy to turn them on and run them. In the apartment they are in a different room, but still not far away. Sometimes I even find myself walking into the wrong room
Two years ago I got married. Now the biggest distraction is my wife, in a number of different ways  When she is at work I have time to myself to get work done. When she is home, I am much less productive. She is either coming into my office or I am going out to see how she is doing. The more I stay in my office, the more she comes in to see how I am doing, or has something that she wants help with or wants me to do.
We are still in the same apartment, and planning to buy a house in the near future. My trains are still in the same room and only a short distance away, but I spend less time walking into the wrong room. Genealogy on the other hand is done on the computer in my office, so I still find time for it, and yes, it is now my second biggest distraction. I'll give you 3 guesses what the biggest is, but the first 2 don't count (see above if you have doubts).
So, that is my story. Oh, and for you old timers on here, CListCtrl is still a big distraction too  (you have to have been on CP in the early days to understand that reference)
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We are all saving the environment by not razor blades  Unless you have to turn your web-cams on?
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