<story><title>Working from home may hurt your career</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170418-how-working-from-home-ruins-everything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasmoth</author><text>I found the first part, about the difficulties of attaining flow at home, pretty interesting.&lt;p&gt;I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).&lt;p&gt;Different environments for different people, I guess.  Although that doesn&amp;#x27;t fit well with a culture that says management is about fitting people into standardised processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaymzcampbell</author><text>&amp;gt;Different environments for different people, I guess&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! I seem to get the most work done and the best &amp;quot;flow&amp;quot; when I&amp;#x27;m sat on a train (the Metropolitan underground line in particular). I believe this is partly down to the complete lack of distractions and inability to do much else but sit and work.&lt;p&gt;Alan Shreve summed it up perfectly for me: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;inconshreveable.com&amp;#x2F;10-17-2013&amp;#x2F;code-at-30000-feet&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;inconshreveable.com&amp;#x2F;10-17-2013&amp;#x2F;code-at-30000-feet&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it was feasible I would spend the entire working day going back and forward along the length of the line.</text></comment>
<story><title>Working from home may hurt your career</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170418-how-working-from-home-ruins-everything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasmoth</author><text>I found the first part, about the difficulties of attaining flow at home, pretty interesting.&lt;p&gt;I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).&lt;p&gt;Different environments for different people, I guess.  Although that doesn&amp;#x27;t fit well with a culture that says management is about fitting people into standardised processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spraak</author><text>This is a perfectly succinct rebuttal to the article. Especially this part:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Different environments for different people, I guess.</text></comment>