Hey! This is the daily overpass. My name is Eric and I make apps. Now today let's
ask the question "Does being in an office make you more productive"?
Okay so today I'm coming to you once again from the office building common
room, which I did a video from last week, and sometimes I'll film from here just
because it gives a change of scenery. Last week I did a video sitting right
here and I got a comment from iOS development
who said "That common area looks fantastic. If you get a chance, could you
please do a video on what the change in productivity was after moving to your
new office"? So I wanted to talk about this a little bit, because most of the
time as a single developer working on my own, I have an office by myself and
seemed kind of silly when I moved. In fact, when I was working from home for
all those years, and then moving to an office in the town, the last office I had,
then it really felt silly. I was thinking, I thought it would be really cool, like
it was something I really wanted to do, and I thought, I'll just get this office
in town, and you know, it's just being a bit extravagant. But it was difficult
working with kids at home, like the home environment became a workplace, and it
was always like, keep it down I'm on the phone, all that kind of stuff. So, I
moved into an office building, and I got much more productive, and I felt much
more professional. The days where you feel lazy, you don't feel like doing
things, because I had this office, I had a place to go working on things and
so, for a couple years, I worked in the office above a shop,the one that all the
earlier videos were done in, and that worked pretty well, but it was very
secluded and everything. And then, I guess, it was about six months ago, I moved to
this much nicer office, and while it has improved productivity a bit, it's just
such a nicer experience. I mean it's, it's more expensive, so it has improved
productivity because I have to pay for it, so I have to do more work. But
it's also much nicer, because it's cleaned every day. The last place I would
like, I had to vacuum it myself, it was just kind of a bit more dingy, it was
in the middle of the town, I can hear all the noises outside, and here it's much it's
much nicer, it's much more professional, and it has meeting rooms here. So if you
do get an office. You might want to get one where you have meeting rooms you can
hire or rent for an hour, because before, I was having a lot of meetings with
clients at like, coffee shops or at their offices. So sometimes I would drive for
an hour each way, or for a couple of hours and just always on the road.
And now they can come here and meet with me on occasion, and that's much nicer to
do, and it just feels much more professional, and because I can rent out
a meeting room they don't come to my office which sometimes there might be a
sandwich wrapper on the desk or whatever. You know because ultimately, sometimes,
you're a developer, you get in the zone. You're not as tidy as you should be and
everything. But it's a really good question, and for those of you guys who
are working from home and you know it's and you if you're tempted to get an
office like me. I was tempted to get into an office but I was thinking it's more
of an extravagance. I don't really need one, but once I moved into one, I found
like I got much more productive, much more focused, and I just felt more
professional. And I think, just being around a more professional environment
here, makes me feel more, it just makes me work harder, makes me feel more
professional. When clients come in, I don't feel like, oh, like the
imposter syndrome, it doesn't seep in like it does normally, and stuff like
that. But it's a really good question. Highly encourage you to get an office, if
you don't have one already, and if you have an office you think's kind of
dingy just for a change of scenery move to something a little bit nicer. I mean
it's just a really, it's just a really nice thing to do, because the the scary
thing is this. It's more expensive and we have to pay for it. So we have to bring
in more work and you know it's the whole chicken and egg thing. So anyway, let me
know what you guys think. Do you work in an office? Do you work at home? How do you
find an office? Or do you just prefer your home environment. Because I
suppose if I was single, working from home would be fine, because you know, I'm
not disturbing anybody. But anyway that is it for today. I'll talk to you guys
again tomorrow.