Absolutely, yes. Don’t know how it’s in Google, but offices in our company don’t supply nice equipment like Herman Miller chairs with high quality desk and constant distractions from other people make any kind of deep state of work impossible.
Add on top of that having a house with a nice garden (if you’re one of those lucky people!) and the clear winner is obvious.
Working from home there are still days when focusing is difficult, but nothing as frustrating as that.
There's a reason why 10x engineers inevitably work evenings and weekends, and, if they have any social acumen, manage to get themselves excused from most workday time wasting rituals, including showing up at the office.
Do you mean "garden" in the American sense (an area for growing food and/or decorative plants), or in the British sense (what American's would call a "lawn" or "yard")?
The Irish I talk to all call their private patch of green adjacent their house a 'garden' even if it contains only grass with optional tree. I had assumed they got the word from you guys.
Prefer the DIY version where I have to put the work in myself.
I can appreciate professionally managed green spaces, and do enjoy them, but they have nothing on the space that I myself get to experiment with.