After working fully-remote for Epic for a year, I can't ever imagine going back to work in an office. It's such a wonderful experience for me:
⭐ I can pick up my kid when they finish daycare at 4pm, and fill in the hours at other times, even very late or early in the morning.
⭐ I can do chores or exercise in my lunch break.
⭐ My commute is exactly 0 minutes.
⭐ Our optional zoom room is perfect for jumping in and out of to keep up with information and build friendships with team-members. #GameDev
@ben It's pretty dependent on your life circumstances. If your house becomes a furnace at noon, you live in a hilly area so you can't "just take a walk around", and you don't have a healthy social circle, it can be isolating.
The funny thing is, my office location is where most of my older friends commute too, so I can live a more social life if I (and they) don't work from home, and my office area is also more conductive to jogging and walking around.
@bayindirh It suuuper depends. Even 5 years ago I would have hated working fully remote. But having a kid completely destroyed my social life so I'm fine with it now 🫠
@ben I’ve worked from home for 18 years and on the rare occasion I’ve had to work from an office for a week or two, they are really fecking weird, inefficient workplaces. I have no idea how anyone gets anything done there
@ben fully remote is amazing! it definitely also helps a lot when the team already has a hybrid-remote friendly culture (so there are less water cooler conversations and more virtual async chats and calls)
@epu it depends on the number of people in the team, people's preferences etc. It's usually more full near deadlines as people are confirming specs, bugs, collaborating
@ben yeah I’m wondering if stakes are so low for others. Always been helpful for me to listen along and internalize overall direction, pick up tips, chime in etc.