I had my first remote job in 2014, and I discovered that I get much, much, much better results working remotely.

I had not realized the true toll of constant tiny interruptions before I was free of them.

Coworkers describe me as "extremely responsive" when I'm working remotely, but just the chance to spend two minutes getting to a logical stopping point before answering someone's question is huge for me, and there are simply a lot fewer interruptions all told.

Because I am nearly always cheerful, I had not understood either that I have aspects of bipolarity in my ability to work. It turns out that every month or two I have a hypomanic episode where I spend two or three days working 12-14 hour days at close to peak efficiency. There's no other symptom - my wife says I seem perfectly normal except I work a lot, and I still hang out, watch TV, sleep normally.

I think I had these when I was working in an office, but there was no way to capitalize on them, because the office environment is grueling.

Conversely, I realize that I have three or four days every month where generate little new work, though I'm fine for answering tickets and helping people out. I used to sit in the office and stress but now I stay at home, am responsive to people, and do little, and no one notices, because generally I'm the top producer in any team.

Overall, I believe I'm at least 20% more efficient, but more, I generate about 10% fewer bugs because of the lack of interruptions.

And the dog, of course.