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