How Programmers REALLY WFH

This is what they really do

The Secret Developer
3 min readNov 10, 2022
Photo by Good Faces on Unsplash

Working from home as gone on for a long while. Covid sent workers to their bedrooms in droves.

Some of us still stay in the ether between our bed and the fridge, and others will stay slaving at the keyboard.

Here are some WFH archetypes, any seem familiar?

Secret Eaters

How do you fill your day, each long stretch of 8 hours.

Are you solving problems, or is it that you are able to work only with a sugar rush?

Caffeine Bombs

In the coffee shop? All day?

At least you’ve got that great salary to pay for the that caffeine fuel. Go you!

Gym

Some of you nip off to the gym during the working day. Your lunch is slightly longer than might be expected, but at least you’re working on your “guns”.

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