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  1. Comment on End of the office: The quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home in ~life

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    Definitely lucky. I have been with the company from essentially the beginning courtesy of being in the right place at the right time and knowing somebody who was dating the founder. I have been...

    Definitely lucky. I have been with the company from essentially the beginning courtesy of being in the right place at the right time and knowing somebody who was dating the founder. I have been able to help shape the direction the company has taken, which has been both fun and painful. We believe in the freedom to allow people to work in the way they want to work and we have a self-motivated, self-organising philosophy coupled with a novel organisational structure.

    I would be lying if I didn't say there were some large pain points though; things such as decision-making, decentralisation from the founder, autonomy and to some extent personal development can often be found lacking. But we are growing, aware of our flaws and try and put things in place to resolve them.

    All said and done, I am here still after 8 years and I don't intend to leave anytime soon!

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  2. Comment on End of the office: The quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home in ~life

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    This is what we do in a company I work for, albeit we are just 100 people. We advertise the job as fully remote and we have employees in six countries around the globe, but we operate two offices...

    This is what we do in a company I work for, albeit we are just 100 people. We advertise the job as fully remote and we have employees in six countries around the globe, but we operate two offices that employees can go in as little or as often as they want. We're opening another, smaller office in another country for those employees next month also.

    I for one have been working from home for around a 8 years and enjoy it as I am privileged enough to have the space to do so. I do like going to the office in this country on occassion, but in reality I prefer to stay out of the capital city. Some of my colleagues much prefer a place to go to and you will often find them in the office.

    Interestingly, one countries employees in particular seem to prefer to be in the office 5 days a week. I'd assume it's a mix of cultural and socioeconomics that play a part in the decisions to work from home more or less.

    Anyway, the freedom to choose is a really nice touch.

    e: typo

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