I used to believe I was more productive in the office, but after 2 years of remote work and then 1 year of 100% of time in the office, I'm clearly more productive at home. As a developer taking mental breaks is essential for actually solving problems, it was much easier to do that because I could "leave" the office room, get a context change and then come back and quickly solve that problem I was stuck on. In the office I felt stressed to stick around at my desk and often times would "spin out" on a problem for a longer period of time and couldn't get a proper context change because where inside or outside of the office.
100% - I dont think we realize how much of a mental break working from home offered until there was this option to. As long as you're accountable for your work, and trust the team to be accountable, then how someone manages their time and work to show up as their best self and show up with their best work should be left to them to choose - Cass
@@2kids1startup Outside of development type work, is there a challenge with how to keep remote workers accountable? In development, in my experience, that was one of the easiest problems to solve. Every two weeks we have a planning session. There, we weigh out our work load and allocate each task ahead of time. Because we weigh the tasks as a team, we have an agreed upon "time to completion" and assumption that we finish all of our tickets, with some leeway. We keep each other updated once in the late morning on a super quick 15 min session if there are any blockers, things we are struggling with, or if we are getting done with things quicker reaching out to help overs or take on more work.
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I used to believe I was more productive in the office, but after 2 years of remote work and then 1 year of 100% of time in the office, I'm clearly more productive at home. As a developer taking mental breaks is essential for actually solving problems, it was much easier to do that because I could "leave" the office room, get a context change and then come back and quickly solve that problem I was stuck on. In the office I felt stressed to stick around at my desk and often times would "spin out" on a problem for a longer period of time and couldn't get a proper context change because where inside or outside of the office.
100% - I dont think we realize how much of a mental break working from home offered until there was this option to. As long as you're accountable for your work, and trust the team to be accountable, then how someone manages their time and work to show up as their best self and show up with their best work should be left to them to choose - Cass
@@2kids1startup Outside of development type work, is there a challenge with how to keep remote workers accountable? In development, in my experience, that was one of the easiest problems to solve.
Every two weeks we have a planning session. There, we weigh out our work load and allocate each task ahead of time. Because we weigh the tasks as a team, we have an agreed upon "time to completion" and assumption that we finish all of our tickets, with some leeway. We keep each other updated once in the late morning on a super quick 15 min session if there are any blockers, things we are struggling with, or if we are getting done with things quicker reaching out to help overs or take on more work.
Oh, RUclips recommended this to me😅