Comparison

Onsite Work

What is best done onsite:

• Brainstorming
• Bumping into each othe rfor casual quick conversations
• Rubbing shoulders
  • Easier to spark ideas
• Meetings
• Quick clarification

What is best not done onsite:

• Sometimes focus
• Taking a break

Helps with:

• Focus
  • Sometimes it helps to be around other poeple to work
  • Especialy if you need the motivation and focus of others

Benefits of working onsite:

• Socializing
• Brainstorming
• Easier to ask questions
• Easier to achieve breadth and depth
• Learning good habits from other people
• Peer pressure from other people

Problems with working onsite:

• Have to share a location and schedule with other people
• Peer pressure from other people
• Can be intense
  • Need to defuse once in a while

Remote Work

What is best done remotely:

• Research
• Exploration

What is best not done remotely:

• Brainstorming
• Meetings

What can be done remotely:

• Quick clarification
• Research
• Execution

What can not be done remotely:

• Brainstorming
• Meeting

Requires:

• Independence
• Self Driven
• Self accountable
• Good habits

Benefits of working remotely:

• Work whenever or wherever I want
  • Time/schedule
  • Location
• Isolation
• No peer pressure from other people

Problems with working remotely:

• Socializing
• Isolation
• I can't carry the equipment that I work best on
• Can only achieve either breadth or depth
• Harder to learn from others
• Slave to your bad habits
• No peer pressure from other people

What questions can be asked remotely:

• Quick yes/no answers.
• Solutions which can be copied or pasted