Why even engineers think working from home is a bad idea - Quartz

Why even engineers think working from home is a bad idea – Quartz

Why even engineers think working from home is a bad idea Written by SHARE It seems intuitive that engineers and computer scientists would prefer working from home, since tasks like writing complex computer code require intense, solitary focus. But a debate started on Y Combinator’s Hacker News,  the popular forum for tech types, has raised the question of whether, despite the interruptions and agitations of office life, people who do collaborative work are better off working from one place. The debate was sparked by Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of remote worker haven Automattic , who was responding to a post from British venture capitalist and programmer Paul Graham on US immigration policy . Graham had argued on his website that limits on US visas for foreign workers hold companies back. Mullenweg took to his own blog to retort that many tech companies are avoiding an obvious solution to the problem, and throwing away some of the best talent,

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