If you hadn’t heard, Georgia has been having a bit of a gasoline shortage problem. Because of that, my boss(es) graciously allowed us to work from home a couple of days this week. I have a Macbook with Parallels and all my developer tools, plus I always keep the latest code handy, so I had no problem getting set up to do this. After working from home Wednesday and Thursday, here are a few observations in no particular order:
- Surprisingly, my 3 year-old left me alone for the most part. She was awesome!
- I got a lot done. In my opinion, more than I would have with the distractions of the office.
- I don’t want to do it every day.
- I miss the gang.
- I miss lunchtime (a social event in our office).
- Seemingly contrary to the previous point, I loved lunch at home. Had a great sandwich and watched Colbert all in less time than I would’ve spent at lunch if I were in the office.
- The “drive” is awesome. I got up later, got to work earlier, quit later in the day, and still didn’t feel like I’d spent ALL DAY at work.
- Two days per week is probably enough.
- My home desk, chair, and 19″ CRT monitor suck. My knees hurt after two straight days.
We’ll just have to see if we’re allowed to continue doing this in the future. For my part, I feel it helped me make some good progress and between phone, email, and IM, I didn’t feel at all out of touch with the people I needed to get my job done.