I will drop my 5 cents on this topics since I am on remote for 1+ year.
First of all, I never work in the same room where I sleep (usually), that is productivity killer because our brain gets used on the same routine and when you are home you are more comfy to lay down a little or just watch neverending TV shows.
When I finish with my job I just go out for a few hours, to refresh my self and to continue with social activities, I saw a lot of developers becoming too much asocial. How we would say "Leave me alone, I want to bite everyone" == anxious
For communication inside the team, we use SLACK, we have daily standups and we go often to grab a beer/ coffee during the week to catch up.. (besides when we are traveling).
There is Google Meet / Hangouts which help us to communicate faster and to kill the feel of our non-presentence in the firm.
For productivity, we are using the kinda agile method. We adapted SCRUM to our needs.
Every week we have a revision and planning for the next tasks and we have one rule, never move the task to another week and if you are done with everything you are free to go. (So we have these rewards to keep us productive)
Tips for productivity
Never start to work if you don't have 3 hours at least to sit and work on it
Drink water => I have SLACK reminder for every hour
Take more breaks => I always walk a little bit after finishing small features, but if I worked on something bigger and harder I always take a bigger break and sit drink some tea)
I stopped over-eating because my bed can call me to lay down a little bit, I am eating smaller parts but frequently
Set your mindset. I always think that I am in the office and someone can ask me what are you doing.
Make everyone know when you are at remote that you are not available when they want.. Sometimes I have those problems... I am working and boom you don't know where you are because of 1000000 questions asked by people around you. Because the focus is our precious
Love the water reminder. For some reason, I'm good about staying hydrated when I'm at the office..but terrible when I'm in my own home!
Something I need to do is get a better setup. On days when I work from home, I'm at our big kitchen table that has a coffeeshop vibe. While it's really nice in concept, it's not ergonomic at all and my carpal tunnel always starts to kick in after a few hours. The only other suitable table is a desk in my bedroom which, like you suggested, is a terrible place to work!
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Hello there,
I will drop my 5 cents on this topics since I am on remote for 1+ year.
First of all, I never work in the same room where I sleep (usually), that is productivity killer because our brain gets used on the same routine and when you are home you are more comfy to lay down a little or just watch neverending TV shows.
When I finish with my job I just go out for a few hours, to refresh my self and to continue with social activities, I saw a lot of developers becoming too much asocial. How we would say "Leave me alone, I want to bite everyone" == anxious
For communication inside the team, we use SLACK, we have daily standups and we go often to grab a beer/ coffee during the week to catch up.. (besides when we are traveling).
There is Google Meet / Hangouts which help us to communicate faster and to kill the feel of our non-presentence in the firm.
For productivity, we are using the kinda agile method. We adapted SCRUM to our needs.
Every week we have a revision and planning for the next tasks and we have one rule, never move the task to another week and if you are done with everything you are free to go. (So we have these rewards to keep us productive)
Tips for productivity
Love the water reminder. For some reason, I'm good about staying hydrated when I'm at the office..but terrible when I'm in my own home!
Something I need to do is get a better setup. On days when I work from home, I'm at our big kitchen table that has a coffeeshop vibe. While it's really nice in concept, it's not ergonomic at all and my carpal tunnel always starts to kick in after a few hours. The only other suitable table is a desk in my bedroom which, like you suggested, is a terrible place to work!