38% of remote workers work from bed
I&#x27;ve been working remote for about 10 years.<p>I&#x27;ve had &quot;real&quot; offices.  I&#x27;ve worked in open-plan offices.  I&#x27;ve had a home office.  I&#x27;ve worked from bed.<p>There are tons of good ways to do it.<p>Lately I swap between a kitchen table and a chair on my porch. I no longer use multiple screens, I&#x27;ve just gotten really fast at swapping windows on my 15&quot; laptop; I&#x27;ve gotten good at figuring out how wide my terminal window breaks should be and where my browser dev tools should sit.<p>Surely there are more optimal ways of doing stuff.  Odds are that there is a Taylorist approach that would pull more productivity out of me.  But much like my typing speed (~50WPM) isn&#x27;t really the limiting factor in my programming skill, screen real estate isn&#x27;t a big factor in getting stuff done for me.<p>But the big thing for me is that, in the end, it&#x27;s fine for me to switch stuff up on a monthly or quarterly or yearly basis.<p>I could never have done that when I was in an office.  I couldn&#x27;t take 20 min and play banjo or accordion and come back to my problem with a fresh eye.  I couldn&#x27;t put on my laundry and hang it up while I listen to other folks on the daily stand up.  I couldn&#x27;t start my lunch cooking in the instapot while waiting for a script to finish running.<p>It would take a hard, hard sell to get me back in an office, not matter how much real and legitimate enjoyment and utility other folks get in an office.