A.k.a: “Things you can do when you work at home, that you can’t do in a cubicle.”
Such as take a few minutes and get some aerobic exercise when things are slow, or when you’re waiting for data to process/load/index. When you work in a cube, your coworkers might not appreciate that. 😉
Scott lays out a good argument for the apprenticeship system, something I’ve seen quite a few people across many fields making a case for. “Apprenticeships were, for a long time, the dominant way of learning professional skills. A master agrees to show you how to perform a useful skill. In exchange, he got a bunch…
That’s an extreme example, but this article makes the more obvious one: working in an office comes with its own cognitive load, especially if it’s an open floor plan, because you are forced to navigate noise and other people all day long. I’ve been trying to tell people for years that when I do visit one of our offices as a remote worker, those days are exhausting for me, because it’s the extra cognitive load of getting there, navigating the space and the other people, the noise, etc.
It adds up, and it can contribute to burnout.
I was just having a conversation with someone about this the other day. In the US, when your employer issues you a computer, or a smartphone, as part of your job, they own everything on that device. Storing your own information on it, makes that information accessible to your employer pretty much whenever they want…
“Researchers are now finding that it is the type of jobs available to workers that is most impacted by technology. A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market,” reports that almost all job growth since 1980 is in occupations that rely heavily on social…
The post is written by a developer, and he’s got good advice for anyone looking for that kind of work. I’m not a developer, but I can say with some confidence that this advice applies to everyone. In this job market, who you know is everything.
Scratch that. It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you and your work. The more people who see your work, the more likely you are to land a job. It’s not always that simple, but it sure increases the odds. Maybe for the rest of us, it’s not about having a GitHub repository for our projects, but about writing a blog, being involved in user groups, or volunteering with your industry’s educational resource.
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Oh I don’t know; a departmental aerobic step might be just the thing to burn off any frustrations in the office 🙂
I have an elliptical trainer in my home office, and it *is* nice to have something I can hop on for 5 minutes right next to my desk.