Up until about a year ago, I have spent just about every day working in an office of some sort. I now work in the field for ATG, and when I am not on the road (which is about 40% of the time) I work out of my home office. It was a pretty big adjustment, and my biggest hurdle centered around managing my time and staying focused in an environment where there can be a lot of distractions.
I think I've made the transition fairly well, and while there's a ton of upside to working from home, I felt like there was something missing. When I was at home for more than a week, I found that I had to leave the house and go work at a coffee shop just to be around people. I probably wasn't horribly productive on those days, but I needed the interaction to break up the solitude.
I was at our user conference last week, and ran into some fellow Tweeters (is that the right expression? Sounds better than Twitterers). We started talking about how great Twitter was for the mobile worker, and then it dawned on me what I think I missed most about working in an office. It's the little hallway conversations about mostly trivial subjects: movies, last night's episode of "Lost", sports, etc. With Twitter, you can "kinda" have those conversations in almost real time.....it's not the same, but it's pretty darn close.
In some ways, it might even be better - when I need to put my head down and knock something out, I just shut down my Twitter client. Try doing that in your office when you have a deadline, but "fantasy football guy" stops by your desk and wants to chat for 25 minutes about the implications of Brett Favre retiring.
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