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I've been full-time remote (work from home, with a 3-year stint of work from RV) since 1995. It's always worked well for me, and I've been plenty productive enough to keep employers happy. Raised 4 kids in that time, too, including homeschooling. When it works, it works!


For every positive WFH anecdote, we can find someone who performs worse with WFH.

That's the problem with using anecdotes to make sweeping decisions for entire companies: It doesn't acknowledge the differences between people.

Ideally, we'll end up with a mix of remote companies and in-office companies, and the people who prefer each style have plenty of options to choose from.


Holy shit. I'm involuntarily WFH at the moment with two kids in kindergarten age and one in school age I'm "home schooling". It "works", but productivity gets a major hit and my sanity is on the line. Did you have a stay at home partner at the time or are you just a super human? :-D




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