I hate coming into the office! It's cold, people microwave smelly food, and I can't break up my work sessions with some gaming or anime. I wish remote work wasn't seen as such a scary thing for companies.

It's scary because there's always the chance that you ... forget to log out when breaking up the work session with gaming or anime.

Don't get me wrong, even if that were the case, it's the productivity that counts, and there's a decent chance it might be higher even WITH a paid gaming break or two.

However, output is not easily measured in our profession, and that's where the scariness comes in. HomeOffice and remote work are totally the norm in sales. Because the bottom line of a sales employee is pretty darn obvious.

For developers, things are much, much more murky.

And if a sales manager brings in excellent numbers whilst wasting a ton of his time away on facebook, youtube or even in World of Tanks, he's still seen as an excellent sales rep and treated as such.

Think about it, if a dev would finish all his assignments brilliantly a week before the sprint ends, would that result in him being celebrated or in him getting a considerably higher workload come next sprint?

Every time I take one of these breaks suddenly hours have gone by...