While I am a big fan
of snow days in general, this week in Seattle has been tough. It snowed surprisingly hard for a while and I
was unable to make it to our offices on Monday.
While this is not a
terrible situation, it meant I had to work from home for the day. I'm not personally a big fan of working from
home. There are several reasons for this
and the biggest is probably that "home is where I go when I am done
working." Mentally, it is tough for
me to stay focused when I am home.
Another reason is
the limited hardware I have at home, specifically multiple monitors. I'm lucky enough to have 2 monitors at my
desk (three if you count my laptop) at work.
That makes debugging and testing in general much easier - run Tableau on
one monitor, debug on the other. I've
written a few
articles about this in the past and
I do not have this at home.
Typing on one monitor is simply frustrating for the work I do.
I also miss the
interaction with my team. Sometimes I
just need a simple question answered which is pretty fast if folks are around
me. At home, I have to rely on instant
messaging, email or whatever and the delay can leave me blocked for a while.
Finally, my home
network is not as fast as our work building.
Frustrating.
The task I CAN do at
home is paperwork. Updating
documentation, reading designs, giving feedback, etc… are the types of work I
can complete at home and not feel distracted.
As luck would have it, I had about a day's worth of reading and online
training to complete while snowed in, so the day went pretty well.
Now, back to the
office and (real) work!
Questions, comments,
concerns and criticisms always welcome,
John
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