If you get enough friends to come over, eventually you can all pitch in and rent a small property that is centrally located between all of you. You could stock the kitchen with coffee and healthy snacks. Maybe you could even get a whiteboard and a ping pong table!<p>Wait a minute...
I feel this article 100%.<p>Too many people think that remote work means "working from home" or that co-working means "working from WeWork". There are tons of different variations that let you get out and be around other people while working remote. I have long wanted to start a small fun workspace with space for 5 or so people that's really just a place for us all to do work together without being in a traditional office or our houses. A space we can define ourselves (or I define and invite others) that is not my house and also not a stuffy office.<p>IMHO - This is the future of work.
My partner and I regularly work physically next to each-other, even though we both have separate office spaces. It does help stay focused and it's a great change of pace.<p>It is an interesting idea to invite friends over to work with! I will have to try it.
Quite hard with the meetings and all.<p>But managed to have close friends come over to stay for a week at our place and we plan do go visit them for a week.<p>Great benefit of remote work. I don’t have to take time off to visit long distance friends or align vacation time with them which seemed earlier impossible because everyone has different commitments and well we would have to align a lot of people to agree on single destination…
I've set up a spare PC at my mother's place so I can help her out when she needs it (I'm in my late 40s) and still do my work remotely. Her house is half way to my office, so it doesn't cost much time. Unfortunately all my friends are too far away to make working at their places less time consuming than going to the office.