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KarstenK wrote: having family obligations working from home is a dream.
as long as the kids are not at home, mind you...  
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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It actually depends on the commute time 
If I had a 15 minute bike ride, I'd probably go to the office almost every day. An hour car drive on the other hand ...
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I am a software developer (who would have thought?) so I can do a lot from home, but the debug must be done in a laboratory with expensive instrumentation and bulky frames, plus a the selection of different models.
The bare minimum instrumentation I use costs upwards of 50k, requires more power to operate than what a home in Italy gets from the line (3.6 kW max for each home contract, 6 kW if you have an EV, pay a premium and your line supports it) and at 3-phase 380V to boot, which isn't available at all in homes.
When we get to thermal chambers, EMC rooms, anechoic chambers and load tests there is no way I can stay away from the lab proper.
That said there have been long stretches of time (months) where I worked exclusively from my office desk and could have debugged with less than 2k€ of instrumentation that would easily fit in place of my flight simulator joystick at home so...
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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wow ! sounds like you are testing nuclear fusion 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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If only! Working in such an environment has always been a starry-eyed dream for me, either chemical, physical or biological.
Alas I develop car parts, which are bulky, powerful and need to meet dozens of different safety and electrical regulations. Which is annoying but absolutely essential, all vehicle technology (from ancient carriages to trains and airplanes) is sadly built on a lot of accidents, most of them deadly.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Years ago, I worked in a US, EPA lab (Environmental Protection Agency). We tested car emissions using tons of expensive gas-analyzing gear. It was a lot of fun. My boss had apparently inhaled way too many car fumes, making him one of the first people to even think of the idea of working from home. He let us do design work one day a week at home. Very special circumstance.
Interesting aside: After about a month, I understood the readings from the gas-analyzing instruments. While we were doing a test run on a vehicle, one of the lab technicians pulled me aside and said, "hey, watch this!" He pointed to the active gauges and chart recorders, so I'd make a mental note of what the gas levels were running at. He pulled the "sniffer" out of the tail pipe of that running vehicle. (The sniffer is a small tube, placed inside the exhaust pipe, drawing the car's exhaust gasses into the instruments.) He took a cigarette pack out of his lab coat pocket, lit one up, and proceeded to exhale the cigarette smoke into the sniffer.
Many of the instruments pegged their meters! Meaning that exhaled cigarette smoke contains a higher concentration of hydrocarbon particulates, nitrogen oxide, and carbon monoxide than a few seconds of car exhaust does.
Moral of the story?
Next time you want to smoke, take a hit off of a car's exhaust instead.  
Besides being able to work from home once a week, there was another fringe benefit of that job.
I quit smoking that very same week.
Universal Compiler Error 49: unrecognized developer. (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore, or assume (F)etal position
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Cosmic Turnip wrote: I quit smoking that very same week.
That makes you smart
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I'm OK splitting my time between home and office
Office is OK, but I'd like to occasionally work from home
I prefer working in an office
Not necessarily in that order.
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