Kent Rancourt
1 min readFeb 17, 2020

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You make laziness sound like an inevitable trap that most remote workers will fall into eventually. I’ve been working from home for many years and have never considered myself lazy. Nor have I frequently encountered other remote workers who are. What I WILL say is that I have come to view time in more flexible terms. Do I ever attend an appointment or do laundry during work hours? I sure do. Do I ever hop back on the computer after the kids are in bed and keep working? Yes… almost every night. My overall productivity and output is significantly higher working remotely. As long as you have a good work ethic and work on a team that values results more highly than rigid adherence to a schedule, everything is fine. (Although this can be its own kind of problem. I probably work too much, net, BECAUSE I work from home.) I’ve never worked in my pajamas. I’ve never known my remote co-workers to do so either. And I would know because we Zoom frequently. The depression/loneliness from more rare in-person interactions is a real hazard — but even that’s subjective. I’m sure many people navigate that differently based on their personality and existing mental health state/challenges. Bottom line… this article is very subjective and reflects YOUR experience (which I do not mean, at all, to diminish), but some of your generalizations seem a little unfair to those who prosper working remotely.

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Kent Rancourt
Kent Rancourt

Written by Kent Rancourt

Kent is a founding engineer at Akuity, working primarily with Kubernetes, Argo CD, and other open source projects.

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