I found that remote work can be a lot more stress-bearing than working in an office.
This is actually for the same reason that giving your kid a tablet to keep them occupied instead of you giving them face-time and engaging with them can and does stunt their emotional growth and development. As social creatures we humans need that face time. Sure you dont need it 100% and *trovert styles do exist but over the long run you do need to need to be in the vicinity of like minded people to get through stresfull or nore importantly joyful days.
You really do need to 'smell' them and experience them looking at you and sharing that foul tasting muffin they made over the weekend with you. You need, in other words, for people to remind you that you're still alive in a way the reptile parts of your brain expect to be told so.
When you work in an office at least you have a big circle of friends. It's been shown that having a best friend at work can be 7x good for your productivity.
Personally I work in the smallest possible configuration for a dev team and all of our other team member are overseas. So it is a mix of off-shoring, remote from home and in-office. And only like 20% of the work is truly isolated, nost of it affecting a bigger let me say platform.
What it means is when you need to ask a seemingly 'cheap to ask' but important question you can't just peer over the divider and shout it out. Not to mention cross cultural or technical issues regarding accessing remote services AND servers.
So for me remoting is both good and if not done right can lead to a day where the normal healthy work stresses take too long to settle down and could snowball into something that makes the whole point of remote just moot because you've replaced it with a new set of novel but worse problems.
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I found that remote work can be a lot more stress-bearing than working in an office.
This is actually for the same reason that giving your kid a tablet to keep them occupied instead of you giving them face-time and engaging with them can and does stunt their emotional growth and development. As social creatures we humans need that face time. Sure you dont need it 100% and *trovert styles do exist but over the long run you do need to need to be in the vicinity of like minded people to get through stresfull or nore importantly joyful days.
You really do need to 'smell' them and experience them looking at you and sharing that foul tasting muffin they made over the weekend with you. You need, in other words, for people to remind you that you're still alive in a way the reptile parts of your brain expect to be told so.
When you work in an office at least you have a big circle of friends. It's been shown that having a best friend at work can be 7x good for your productivity.
Personally I work in the smallest possible configuration for a dev team and all of our other team member are overseas. So it is a mix of off-shoring, remote from home and in-office. And only like 20% of the work is truly isolated, nost of it affecting a bigger let me say platform.
What it means is when you need to ask a seemingly 'cheap to ask' but important question you can't just peer over the divider and shout it out. Not to mention cross cultural or technical issues regarding accessing remote services AND servers.
So for me remoting is both good and if not done right can lead to a day where the normal healthy work stresses take too long to settle down and could snowball into something that makes the whole point of remote just moot because you've replaced it with a new set of novel but worse problems.