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Over the years I developed my own spin on this topic. For me it’s not about working remotely but the ability to choose day by day whether i want to work remotely or on-site. My current balance, evolved organically, is 4 days remote 1 day on-site. The constraint of course is that you have to live close enough to an office of your company to commute. The upside is that you can have it all :)

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Taking it a step further, even being able to make such calls as going in for the AM and coming back home for the PM can be incredibly powerful for both productivity and maintaining a presence as someone in upper management. I’ve found myself increasingly in this situation organically, balancing my family obligations, meetings in different time zones, and having the time for my team and to get everything else in the middle done.

Close enough to commute, but as close as when you commute every day.

I would tolerate a 1 hour commute each way if I only had to do it once a week but never if I had to do it every day - the short time I did made me miserable.

This is actually what I do now. I have just about an hour of commute time by car when I go into the office, which I do about 1 day per week.

It isn't bad then and I actually enjoy the commute most of the time.

I am in the red on this one. I travel one hour both ways for a sysadmin job. But, hoping to relocate or start doing remote 2-3x a week.

Back when I was actually going into an office occasionally, the 4 remote / 1 in office schedule is what I wound up with (through my own choice). Spending 1 day (sometimes 2) in the office, the rest remote is really nice. At least for me, it's optimal.

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