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haha  too much distractions
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For most people the answer to that question is 'my boss'.
I can work from home, we have some who do it more than others, some with health problems pretty much all the time.
It is easier not to work at home if you don't want to.
It is easier to work if you do.
I cannot do it all the time as I am wanted for face to face meetings, to look at hardware, and so the company can actually see me and get some reassurance that I do still think about work.
If you don't have muc of a social life outside of work then you can go a little stir crazy without enough direct human interaction, I did a number of years largely working alone but not at home, and it became really miserable after a while as the hours were odd too so when I finished most of the rest of the country was in bed.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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i agree on both boss and social aspect of it.
Boss want to see your face and without going to Office, it can become really lonely.
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Only the lack of anyone willing to pay me to do it. I'm sat in front of 5 monitors and at least as much computing power as any employer would lavish on me in my dedicated home office. I'm online and I have 3 different IDEs open on 2 different operating systems. If someone wants to put money in my bank I'll write the code they want. Until then I'll write the code I want 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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yes there was also a study at stanford which said that Working from home increases performance
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Whom did they ask - people who had actually done it for long periods of time or people who had done it occasionally. The ones who do it occasionally will always say it increases performance. The thing is, you can convince yourself that it increases performance even though your performance is the same. Also are these people who work on single tasks or multiple tasks. People who work on single tasks don't have to context switch so being productive can be easily achieved. People who work on multiple tasks have to context switch. Being productive can be difficult wherever you are.
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Raj Lal wrote: What stops you from tele-commuting?
Flexibility and independence.
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but won't you be more independent WFH ?
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"More indepenant"? How so?
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The fact that the product I'm working on runs a 60-foot long, $2M printing press that would be rather difficult to fit in my upstairs home office.
Software Zen: delete this;
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ah tahts seems to be reasonable problem
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The boss.
The best I can hope for is "virtual" work, where I can find a desk somewhere else to sit at. (For instance, working on Fort Hood which is 10 minutes away, rather than the VA Hospital, which is 45 minutes away.)
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Nothing at all. I do. 
Anna ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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great What are the software you use for day to day activities ?
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For collab stuff? Our needs are pretty basic, so nothing too fancy. Asana[^] (task management), and Skype[^] (IM/VOIP) are the main two. We're also considering adopting an online CRM solution such as Insightly[^] rather than the homebrew setup we have at the moment.
If you are working in a larger team I've heard good things about Code Collaborator[^].
Anna
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"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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I think it says that the employees *said* they were more productive. Of course they would say that... they want to continue doing so
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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The teleportation device still has a few bugs that need to be worked out.
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I suppose it depends on numerous stuff - both personal and external. E.g. some may not want to work at home - i.e. home they see as their "personal" space and don't want to "pollute" it with work. Under this I'd class unable to stop playing computer games when at home all the way through to wanting to spend your time with family while at home. This is not me though, I can only imagine such.
But I think the much more prevalent reasons for not telecommuting it external influences:
The "boss" simply wants to see you at the office all the time, some bosses are like that - all they care about is attendance (you could do whatever else as long as you do it at the office). Stupid, but I've had a few of these - have seen employees putting in overtime while playing some game on the office PC. "Boss" (read "Idiot") doesn't care: "They're here aren't they?"
Type of work, sometimes your work involves some physical place you have to be - which means you have to travel no matter what. Perhaps going to a client's office to install / update / support the software you / your company made / sells.
Size of data (depends on job), cost and speed of data communications (depends on area): I know in most of the western world internet access is quite fast and extremely cheap. Some other countries however find this situation reversed - I've done the calcs for myself: Would cost me around 3 times as much to do daily up/downloads of the project files (current project's main file is 130MB Revit RVT file - takes around 2 hours to download here) than to drive with my own car back and forth (15km one-way commute in Johannesburg South Africa).
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Thanks for the detail reply : ) so i guess its the technical difficulties like broadband connection and type of work where you have to collaborate with others are major reasons.
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Depends what your job entails. I have to talk to a lot of people, every day, and a quick chat by the coffee machine or at a desk can be far more efficient than any of the electronic means of communication.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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i agree, nothing beats a face to face chat
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Raj Lal wrote: Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
... Which includes every word in that God-awful book.
If you want to learn to write better English, stay far away from that garbage.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: stay far away from that
I would love to know what would you recommend to learn or write better english.
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If you must use a style guide, then Oxford/Hart's style guide, or anything from David Crystal.
But bear in mind that style guides do not tell you about rules of grammar; they only tell you about the preferences of the author, which should not be taken as rules (no matter how loudly the authors shout that they should).
A basic grammar book is all you really need (the smaller, the better; English has remarkably few actual rules). That and 20 years' practice in communicating with the written word, if you're writing for multiple readerships -- your target readership has to understand your full meaning after having read the text only once, that's the real target.
Strunk was a university professor, who wrote his style guide for his students to follow when submitting work to him, so it is entirely based on what made it easier for him to mark papers, containing "rules" that are just plain wrong (e.g. the cr@p about passive voice), and are incredibly dumbed down.
E. B. White later expanded worsened Strunk's text, by adding his own views -- i.e. the views of a person who wrote stories for young children, so it was driven even deeper into a niche that applies to almost no-one, and dumbed down yet further.
It is one of the worst books on the English language that has ever been published.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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