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What are the hardest parts about working from home?

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Ferit πŸŒŸπŸ•Œ
  • Focus
  • Kids
  • Sitting properly
  • Disconnect from work :D
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Sung M. Kim

Sitting properly

This is especially true as there isn't anyone watching you...

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Ferit πŸŒŸπŸ•Œ

Yeah, I don't have a proper chair to work from home, so sitting properly is even more of a challenge.

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Anwar • Edited

I feel, mentally thinking your day is over is a bit harder than when you are at home and don't commute or change space.

Too much temptations for pushing your day a little bit because "hey, I don't commute 2 hours a day anymore, I could show my team I am committed to my work".

Plot twist: never do that, just take care of your family in this hard time. The world will not collapse in an hour, it's ok to quit when the day is over (If it wasn't obvious, I am self coaching my self now πŸ˜…).

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Ilona Codes

Avoiding the kitchen area πŸ˜…

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Sung M. Kim

You summed it up much better than my reply!~ 😁

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Ben Halpern

So much this

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Ben Lovy

Duelling conference calls in a small apartment.

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Nitin Reddy

If you have a kid to take care of, then it becomes somehow difficult. Plus if you are a working couple then it's like another level but with passing time you tend to manage to take care of the kid while WFH πŸ™‚

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Sung M. Kim

The hardest part is controlling body weight.
(Gained about 7~8 lbs since WFH.)

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, cheers to that. β˜•οΈ

I drink waaaaay too much coffee when working from home!

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Sung M. Kim

Not drinking 4 coffees per day.

That's something I can relate :)

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Shannon Crabill

But saying not drinking 4 coffees per day, you are saying 1-3 or 5+ cups per day are acceptable.

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Sung M. Kim

Words are ambiguous, unlike programming languages :p

I could be drinking 1~3 cups of coffee (+2 bottle of Monster) 😁

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Oleg Aleksandrov
  1. Wake up at same time every day
  2. Doing sports
  3. Not reading news about economical and coronavirus situation every hour
  4. Not drinking too much coffee
  5. To be absolutely polite with everyone
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Sung M. Kim

A quick "hey, let's talk about this" on slack takes away focus/attention...

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Jamena McInteer

Staying connected to co-workers on a human, non-work level. I struggle with this already if I haven't known someone for a while, and taking away an avenue of connecting with someone (face to face) makes it harder.

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Ali Ilman • Edited

I have a few.

Working out. This is something that’s rather inconsistent but more consistent when comparing to my consistency from last year’s 1.5 months of remote-work.

Sleep. I’m starting to feel the effects of lack of sleep, such as neutral-to-negative thoughts. This has slightly affected my work. How do I get lack of sleep? Purely from lack of discipline knowing that I don’t need to drive tomorrow. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­

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Sung M. Kim

Sleep.

My hours were shifted by 2~3 hours and some of my friends' days and nights are reversed...

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Ali Ilman

Reversed? 😱 I can’t imagine it being easy to adapt one’s routines to such change so quickly.

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Sung M. Kim

A week is enough to get over the jet-lag from Korea (13HR difference)
so 2+ weeks is long enough for that to happen :)

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Pedro Correa
  • Staying focused
  • Exercising
  • Getting focused (on pc) on class after work
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Bernard Baker
  • Concentrating and my level of focus
  • Not walking around
  • Lunches at home
  • Timezones
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Max Ong Zong Bao

Turning off from work
Justifying your doing work since your doing remote work
The human connection
Staying focus on tasks