I’d personally pay more, endure less convenient timing, and sit in a less comfortable seat if it meant I had fast wifi.
like right now flying is pretty time costly for me because most of my highest value work can only be done with internet, so flying means losing a lot of high productivity hours. fast wifi would mean the only time cost of flying is the tiny bit I spend walking through the airport on either end.
Presumably you’d still feel productivity effects from not having a monitor, having worse ergonomics, etc?
I was surprised to see you say above that you’d anticipate flying way more often! Are there times you’ve wanted to fly recently but held off because you couldn’t spare the lost hours of flying? (I would have expected the bigger barrier to be the loss of productive hours from, say, being out-of-the-office in the destination itself)
I don’t really care that much about not having a monitor. it’s a minor productivity hit, whereas not having reliable vaguely-fast internet completely ruins productivity.
I would absolutely fly so much more. weekend trips become way more feasible if I can fly out on Friday and return on Monday. working remotely but visiting HQ occasionally (or otherwise splitting time between two cities) gets a lot easier, because you no longer lose a day of productivity (or a night of sleep) each time.
I’d personally pay more, endure less convenient timing, and sit in a less comfortable seat if it meant I had fast wifi.
like right now flying is pretty time costly for me because most of my highest value work can only be done with internet, so flying means losing a lot of high productivity hours. fast wifi would mean the only time cost of flying is the tiny bit I spend walking through the airport on either end.
Presumably you’d still feel productivity effects from not having a monitor, having worse ergonomics, etc?
I was surprised to see you say above that you’d anticipate flying way more often! Are there times you’ve wanted to fly recently but held off because you couldn’t spare the lost hours of flying? (I would have expected the bigger barrier to be the loss of productive hours from, say, being out-of-the-office in the destination itself)
I don’t really care that much about not having a monitor. it’s a minor productivity hit, whereas not having reliable vaguely-fast internet completely ruins productivity.
I would absolutely fly so much more. weekend trips become way more feasible if I can fly out on Friday and return on Monday. working remotely but visiting HQ occasionally (or otherwise splitting time between two cities) gets a lot easier, because you no longer lose a day of productivity (or a night of sleep) each time.