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Working from home is friction-free, and most productive.

Coming to the office and working in my private office, if nobody else is in the building, comes second.

Working in my office at the office in a normal day when everybody is there, I can maybe get an hour or two of real work done in an eight hour day.

If I had to work in an open office, I'd give myself maybe three days before I was doing things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdAVdc4luE




> if nobody else is in the building

private office and empty building??


Like a Sunday afternoon, say.

Or when a couple of coworkers all have their small children too ill for daycare at the same time. It's a small company...




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