What's your favourite remote work setting?
Dhruv Bhatia
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Where do you like to work from:
1. Home
2. Coffee shop
3. Co-working space
4. Beach
5. Something else
I love working from coffee shops ☕
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Anna Avvakumova@anna_caine
I prefer working from home, especially at winter when it's soooo cold outside (I live in Russia ❄️). Remote work has definitely leveled up my life!
I hope some day I'll be able to spend winters in some warm country, then probably I'll choose to work outside my home)
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Hill Station!! with some beautiful Scenery.
Home then Coffee Shop, lately with all the restrictions I have started to really miss coffee shops and I can't wait to get back to normality.
5. The pub... once Covid is over!
Previous to the pandemic, I loved coffee shops and libraries and could never focus enough to work from home. Now, I have to come up with new strategies every other week to avoid distractions, but it's manageable. Either way, I'm glad I will now have the option to WFH, but I'm eager to get back to coffee shops!
@gabriele_jusaityte What strategies have worked for you? I find it very hard to separate work from personal life at home...
@dhruv_bhatia Well...I tried to distribute tasks into timeframes (didn't work - estimates usually were off), then I tried to-do lists which I would need to follow chronologically (I will have lunch only after I finish 'x') and this worked probably the longest, but some things that are out of your control can easily change your plans, and I'm then you are back to square one 😅
Now I'm trying to 'book' time for work - for instance from 12pm to 5pm I'm in 'do not disturb' mode and anything that comes my way during this time should be ignored. All of this is some sort of mind game, but without it I'm usually all over the place 😅
As with personal life - it is great to have some rules as well, especially when you're a founder/maker/etc, as it usually feels that if you're having some time off, you're not working hard enough. Though I believe that the opposite is true - when you're rested, had spent quality time with friends/family and yourself, you can be more creative, motivated and in the end of the day - more happy.
So, I also try to intentionally 'book' time for everything else, but work 👌
@dhruv_bhatia haha, it sort of is! 😅 What about you? You mentioned that you find it hard to achieve work-life balance, have you experimented with rules/strategies/etc?
@gabriele_jusaityte I try to follow processes without focusing on goals and believe in habit stacking. For example, if I don't feel like doing work, I force myself to do just one more task and then I feel great about myself 😅. I basically follow James Clear's Atomic Habits
@dhruv_bhatia That sounds rewarding! 😅 I assume you liked the book! I ordered it just this week (very late to the hype), but now my expectations are very high 😅
home with occasional coffee shop.
before covid i was regular in a one coffee place with co-working.
that was ideal for the calls. i can't really make a call in the noisy coffee shop.
@vladojsem interesting point...I guess depending on the nature of your work, home might be a better option than working from a coffee shop.
It used to be the coffee shop 😭 If only I could make coffee like that at home.
I really enjoy a mix of from home and co-working space (with an occasional coffee shop day)!
@dhruv_bhatia I think in the start-up and remote workers' scene it could see some growth. For people working for larger companies I'm more skeptical considering that larger companies would not really support people going to a co-working space if they have an office somewhere within transport distances pre-corona (I feel, no personal experience in this though), and if they don't reimburse the cost it's an important hurdle...
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Home but in pre-covid times I enjoyed some occasional coffee shop work sessions. Switching your working context from time to time can have a huge postitive inpact on productivity
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the library is great
Library is great, and parents home too!
Coffee shop. But with covid it is no more available.
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Tea house with Yerba maté and dual screen for the laptop.
Nice one
Roof top of my house in morning and during evening on my sofa.
Coworking definitely :)
Co-working place with a possibility to take a power nap.
@dhruv_bhatia5 I wish I could say beach! but honestly, home at my desk with a 2nd screen/monitor is my favorite place to work.