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+title: Remote work and how it affects the daily lives of people
+permalink: /remote-work.html
+date: 2020-05-05T12:00:00+02:00
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+I have been working remotely for the past 5 years. I love it. Love the freedom
+and make your schedule thingy.
+
+## You work more not less
+
+I've heard from people things like: "Oh, you are so lucky, working from home,
+having all the free time you want". It was obvious they had no clue what means
+working remotely. They had this romantic idea of remote work. You can watch TV
+whenever you like, you can go outside for a picnic if you want and stuff like
+that.
+
+This may be true if you work a day or two in a week from home. But if you go
+completely remote all these changes completely. I take some time to acclimate
+but then you start feeling the consequences of going fully remote. And it's not
+all rainbows and unicorns. Rather the opposite.
+
+## Feeling lost
+
+At first, I remembered I felt lost. I was not used to this kind of environment.
+It felt disoriented and a part of you that is used to procrastinate turns on.
+You start thinking of a workday as a whole day. And soon this idea of "I can do
+this later" starts creeping in. Well, I have the whole day ahead of me. I can do
+this a bit later.
+
+## Hyper-performance
+
+As a direct result, you become more focused on your work since you don't have
+all the interruptions common in the workplace. And you can quickly get used to
+this hyper-performance. But this mode requires also a lot of peace and quiet.
+
+And here we come to the ugly parts of all this. **People rarely have the
+self-control** to not waste other people's time. It is paralyzing when people
+start calling you, sending you chat messages, etc. The thing is, that when I
+achieve this hyper-performance mode I am completely embroiled in the problem I
+am solving and this kind of interruptions mess with your head. I need an hour at
+least to get back in the zone. Sometimes not achieving the same focus the whole
+day.
+
+I know that life is not how you want it to be and takes its route but from what
+I've learned this kind of interruptions can be avoided in 90% of the case easily
+just by closing any chat programs and putting your phone in a drawer.
+
+## Suggestion to all the new remote workers
+
+- Stop wasting other people's time. You don't bother people at their desks in
+  the office either.
+- Do not replace daily chats in the hallways with instant messaging software.
+  It will only interrupt people. Nothing good will come of it.
+- Set your working hours and try to not allow it to bleed outside these
+  boundaries and maintain your routine.
+- Be prepared that hours will be longer regardless of your good intentions and
+  your well thought of routine.
+- Try to be hyper-focused and do only one thing at the time. Multitasking is the
+  enemy of progress.
+- Avoid long meetings and if possible eliminate them. Rather take time to write
+  them out and allow others to respond in their own time. Meetings are usually a
+  large waste of time and most of the people attending them are there just
+  because the manager said so.
+- The software will not solve your problems. And throwing money at problems
+  neither.
+- If you are in a managerial position don't supervise any single minute of
+  workers. They are probably giving you more hours anyways. Track progress
+  weekly not daily. You hired them and give them the benefit of the doubt that
+  they will deliver what you agreed upon.