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Discussion on: If you are working remotely, how do you keep yourself accountable, productive and efficient without external supervision?

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Periklis Gkolias

Rhanks for the insight. Don't co-working spaces lack the comfort of your own office or home office? Equipment wise mostly.

What do you do when you need to stay at home? How are you being productive then?

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Sebastian Vargr

I usually rent a table, then i can add the comforts i need to it. :)
There are also usually couches, meeting/phone -rooms there, so equipment wise it's a step up usually. And if you are into that kind of thing there people to talk to around lunch.

The place i used go to even had a rather cheap catered lunch you could sign up for. :)

At home i enforce the list/log i talked about, and then just try to keep comfy and un-distracted. But truth be told, i have horrible work ethics at home. hence why i try not to work from home.

Even just going to a cafe and chilling for a few hours will usually boost my output comparatively speaking.

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Periklis Gkolias

I suppose you rent a private office? Because in an open space mode it would be difficult to do those things.

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Sebastian Vargr

Not really, everyone there payed for a spot and we had a chipped lock that the logged access + some rudimentary video surveillance.

I would not keep a computer there, but i left screens, keyboards and other external hardware all the time. Also had a whiteboard i would log around.

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Periklis Gkolias

Ah ok. That makes sense then.