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Comment by jmkni | Hacker News Reader

I have learned the hard way that I am not good at remote work.

I recognize that I'm in the minority here, but I actually need to get up, have a shower, leave my flat and go into an office with people for my mental health.

I have zero issue with other people working remotely, in fact I envy them.

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Have you tried a co-working space? For me it helped me a lot

I used to think I was good at working remotely, but lately have had a similar revelation. It's magnified by the fact that my entire team is remote, so even when I go into the office, it's not the team's office - it's a remote office. I can focus pretty well at home, as my kids are adults and my wife works, but this aspect of it is becoming a problem that I am looking for other ways to solve in another way than "go to the office and talk to people".

Sounds like your only social life is from work.

It's not even that, it's like I mentally have trouble kick-starting my day without going through that routine of having a shower, brushing my teeth, leaving the flat. When WFH, some days I am no further along at 3pm than I was at 9pm, then come the deadlines.

Definitely something I wish I had figured out years earlier.

It is beyond critical that you keep your routine! Remote or not. Wake up, gym, shower, etc.

I feel the same as op and struggle to work from home but my social life is plenty active outside work. I would describe it more like a preference to not have a TV in your bedroom. It helps to have that separation. The suggestion to try a coworking space is maybe a good one because I know many friends that are fine waking up and working in pajamas but I have to shower and leave the house to feel good about my headspace

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