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Author	zellisgoatbond
Comment	This thread's been quite interesting to read - I started an internship working from home a week or so ago, and I'm quite conflicted on whether I'd want to do it full time: * On one hand, skipping the commute is really nice - I'm able to both wake up a wee bit earlier and make some more time for just relaxing in the morning. (My commute isn't too too bad though - about 40 minutes each way, which I get for free due to a disability) * But I'm also someone who really values having a barrier between work and home - during uni, I would specifically make a point of staying longer at uni, but refusing to do any work at home (except when it was absolutely necessary, around exam times/big pieces of coursework and so on) - and right now I'm really tempted to check emails and the like well outside of working hours. And I don't think I'm really in the habit of taking "proper" breaks yet (i.e I might go and get a biscuit or something, but I'd still come back to my desk right after). * I feel like working from home works better when you've already met your colleagues in person and just need to continue that relationship, but it's a lot harder to come into a completely new team and build those relationships from scratch. * That being said, for longer breaks (e.g lunch) things can be generally better, since I have a place that's truly "mine" to go to (e.g the garden or the living room). Given it's my first experience of a "proper" job, and it's still very early days, it may just be that some of these things aren't intrinsic to working from home. But at least personally, I definitely see the merits of introducing it as a choice (maybe having one day a week where as many people as possible/everyone in a particular team goes in?).
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/hr72ig/working_from_home/fy4bnvm/
Created	Wed 15th Jul 2020 7:27am
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This thread's been quite interesting to read - I started an internship working from home a week or so ago, and I'm quite conflicted on whether I'd want to do it full time:

* On one hand, skipping the commute is really nice - I'm able to both wake up a wee bit earlier and make some more time for just relaxing in the morning. (My commute isn't too too bad though - about 40 minutes each way, which I get for free due to a disability)
* But I'm also someone who really values having a barrier between work and home - during uni, I would specifically make a point of staying longer at uni, but refusing to do any work at home (except when it was absolutely necessary, around exam times/big pieces of coursework and so on) - and right now I'm really tempted to check emails and the like well outside of working hours. And I don't think I'm really in the habit of taking "proper" breaks yet (i.e I might go and get a biscuit or something, but I'd still come back to my desk right after).
* I feel like working from home works better when you've already met your colleagues in person and just need to continue that relationship, but it's a lot harder to come into a completely new team and build those relationships from scratch.
* That being said, for longer breaks (e.g lunch) things can be generally better, since I have a place that's truly "mine" to go to (e.g the garden or the living room).

Given it's my first experience of a "proper" job, and it's still very early days, it may just be that some of these things aren't intrinsic to working from home. But at least personally, I definitely see the merits of introducing it as a choice (maybe having one day a week where as many people as possible/everyone in a particular team goes in?).