Remote Work
As this book was being written, the world was suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the major changes brought about by the pandemic was to accelerate the trend of people working out of their homes rather than coming into a central office. This has been coming for some time in the IT world, but adoption jumped in the last few months, with companies like Twitter, Facebook, Square, and Shopify all allowing remote work even after the current health crisis was over. The term “WFH,” for Work From Home, is now part of the lexicon.
Speaking from personal experience, WFH is great, especially if you don’t have young children at home. How productive you are also depends on your company’s monitoring requirements, how well the asynchronous ...
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