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-title: Remote work and how it affects the daily lives of people
-url: remote-work.html
-date: 2020-05-05T12:00:00+02:00
-type: post
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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.