Tweet ideas · Work from home
Remote work gives you a steady supply of things to post about: the 11 step commute, the doorbell that rings the second you unmute, the cat who joins every call. It's also a topic people have strong opinions on, which makes it good for replies.
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Working from home means my commute is 11 steps and I'm still somehow late to the 9am.
Dressed for the video call: shirt, blazer, and pajama pants covered in tiny cartoon clouds.
My coworker today is a cat who walks across the keyboard during every important sentence.
I've said "sorry, I was on mute" more times this year than "good morning".
Took a 15 minute break. Unloaded the dishwasher, started laundry, reorganized a shelf. Never been this productive at anything except my job.
The delivery driver rings the doorbell at the exact second I unmute.
My office is the kitchen table. My break room is the kitchen table. My lunch spot? Also the kitchen table.
Number of fridge visits per day while working from home: classified.
My neighbors definitely think I'm either a spy or unemployed.
i haven't said a word out loud since 8am and now i'm leading the 3pm call. voice warming up live
Working from home is great until the internet drops during your one presentation of the month.
My dog has learned that "let's wrap up" means a walk is coming. He now attends every meeting.
Camera on: I am a professional. Camera off: I am eating cereal out of a mug.
The hardest part of remote work is the housemate who also works from home and takes every call on speaker.
Remote work tip: end the day with a fake commute. A 10 minute walk tells your brain the workday is over.
Buy a real chair before a better monitor. Your back will complain long before your eyes do.
If you work from home, put the laptop away at night. Out of sight is the only boundary that holds.
Write the decision down after every call. Remote teams forget faster because there's no hallway to repeat it in.
Block an hour for focused work and give it a boring name so nobody books over it.
Remote tip: get dressed. Not fancy. Just enough that you'd answer the door.
Overshare your status. When you're remote, silence reads as "stuck" even when you're flying.
Leave the house at lunch, even if it's just to the corner and back. The afternoon goes better.
Set a hard stop time and tell your team. People respect a boundary you say out loud.
Natural light on your face beats any webcam upgrade. Move the desk toward the window.
Keep a running doc of what you shipped each week. Remote work is easy to overlook, including by you at review time.
Turn notifications off for the first hour of the day. The messages will still be there. So will your focus.
Hot take: a lot of meetings got worse when they went online, because nobody had to walk to them anymore.
Remote work exposed every manager who only measured whether people looked busy.
The best remote teams I've seen write more and meet less. That's most of the secret.
Unpopular opinion: cameras should be optional on most internal calls.
Working from home is a skill. Some people get it in a week, some take a year, and both are fine.
My kitchen table is quieter than every open plan office I've worked in. I get more done before lunch than I used to in a day.
Arguing about whether remote work works is old news. The useful question now is how teams do it well.
Async updates beat a daily standup for most teams. Fight me (politely).
A hybrid schedule where everyone comes in on different days is remote work with a longer commute.
Remote work rewards people who write clearly. If that's not you yet, it's the best skill to work on this year.
The loneliest part of remote work is losing small talk, so schedule some. It feels silly and it helps.
Getting my commute hours back changed my week more than any productivity app ever has.
Remote workers: what's one thing in your setup you'd buy again tomorrow?
How do you end your workday when your office is also your living room?
Be honest: how many days a week do you change out of what you slept in?
What's the best thing a manager ever did for your remote team?
WFH people, where do you actually take your calls: desk, couch, kitchen or car?
What's your personal rule for when the camera goes on?
If you could bring one thing from office life into remote work, what would it be?
What's the longest you've gone without leaving the house during a work week? No judgment.
Remote teams: how do you make a new hire feel welcome when nobody shares a room?
fully remote, hybrid, or back in the office? and would you switch if you could?
What's the strangest place you've ever joined a work call from?
Tell me your best trick for staying focused at home during the afternoon slump. I need it.
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