Working from home rocks. Rescuetime team worked from home and got half a man-month out of it!

It doesn’t look like much, but 5 people logged an extra 75 hours in a month, with the vast majority of those extra hours being productive development or design hours (about 63 extra dev/design hours were logged in the working from home month).

At posterous we are doing 3 day a week in-the-office, 2 days from home. Less interruptions = way more coding time. I pulled an all-nighter and got some gnarly architecture work done yesterday that there is NO way I could have gotten done in such a small amount of time if I knew I had to live on a normal schedule and get into the office the next day!

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I love the use of the word gnarly. Drastically underused if you ask me.
you using rescuetime at all? ive tried it a few times but never got any usable stats out of it :-(
A change in your weekly routine, like a couple days at home every week, can change the way you think while you work as well. Development can get stagnant in the same environment every day. Sometimes going home and working in different surroundings can just make your brain operate in a different way. In any creative field this can really add that extra personal touch to your work.