In my experience it can work well for tech-centric companies where everyone, or almost everyone is working behind a computer all day. But in most companies where you might have factory workers, call centres, retail outlets, etc, it begins to make less sense. If you have the office space you may as well use it, and often developers will be required to work closely with other departments in the business - this can get difficult when they're all working remotely.
I've worked fully remote and part-remote for almost 10 years and really all I want is flexibility. Can I start a little later when I need to so long as I make back the time? Can I work remotely for a week or two if I need to visit family? These things alone are probably worth $5,000 - $10,000 per year to me.
We should also consider working remote full0time can be extremely isolating, and prolonged periods with little to no human contact in my experience was bad for my mental health. I worked in one place for over 5 years and felt like I never really got to know anyone. I made no real friends. And at times I felt like I was little more than a code monkey writing the next piece of code with no sense of a shared goal or purpose - which you often get when working closely with a team.
It can also be difficult to separate work and home life for some people, especially if you have a family and kids. I don't, but at times my partner might invite her friends or family around - some of whom do have children. Whenever this happened it was extremely difficult for me to get anything done. A few times I even had family come into my office while I was in a meeting with my boss which is far from ideal.
These things are all manageable of course, and I'm sure working fully remote works for some people, but for me I'm much happier working remotely a couple of times a week with some flexibility in my work times.
went through a lot of the same stuff. Its tough to be isolated and mental health is a large driver of why I didn't want to continue working alone on a (small) SaaS app.
I've worked fully remote and part-remote for almost 10 years and really all I want is flexibility. Can I start a little later when I need to so long as I make back the time? Can I work remotely for a week or two if I need to visit family? These things alone are probably worth $5,000 - $10,000 per year to me.
We should also consider working remote full0time can be extremely isolating, and prolonged periods with little to no human contact in my experience was bad for my mental health. I worked in one place for over 5 years and felt like I never really got to know anyone. I made no real friends. And at times I felt like I was little more than a code monkey writing the next piece of code with no sense of a shared goal or purpose - which you often get when working closely with a team.
It can also be difficult to separate work and home life for some people, especially if you have a family and kids. I don't, but at times my partner might invite her friends or family around - some of whom do have children. Whenever this happened it was extremely difficult for me to get anything done. A few times I even had family come into my office while I was in a meeting with my boss which is far from ideal.
These things are all manageable of course, and I'm sure working fully remote works for some people, but for me I'm much happier working remotely a couple of times a week with some flexibility in my work times.