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title: Remote Versus Onsite
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## Remote Versus Onsite
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There are two main work environments: onsite and remote.
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### Onsite Work
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Onsite work is what you might think of when you think of a 9-5 job. When you're onsite, you may either be in your company's office or at a client's office. Either way, you're in the same physical location as the rest of the people with whom you work.
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### Remote Work
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Remote work occurs when team members work in separate physical locations. You can work from anywhere: your home (no commute!), a co-working space (sometimes paid for by your employer), or even a beach in Thailand. Often your only restriction is that you have internet access.
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Because in-person communication occurs less frequently (if at all), remote teams often rely more on communication software like [Slack](https://slack.com/) and [Skype](https://www.skype.com/).
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Remote teams may host regular company retreats so team members can meet and hang out.
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### The "In-Between"
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Some companies are 100% onsite, and some are 100% remote. But, it's not unusual to find companies or teams that allow you to work remotely a day or two out of the week. This allows you to experience some of the benefits of remote work, without being remote all the time.
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Remote work can be a great tool for a business as a contingency plan in the event of inclement weather or a natural disaster.
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Some companies also have a physical office where you can go to work if you'd like, but allow you to work wherever. Recently there has been more movement from large companies, such as IBM, toward moving employees back to onsite employment. However, many large organizations are still very flexible and willing to let you work from home, or another convenient location.
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### Multiple Teams
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Larger companies may have a different version of the "in-between", where they have a number of different teams working onsite, but in multiple different locations. For example, a team working onsite in New York and another team working onsite in Chicago. You can hang out with other team members in an office, but you also use remote working techniques (Slack, Skype, etc) to stay in contact and in sync with the other teams. The teams may all be working on the same project, or developing something independently against the same application or platform.
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### More Information:
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Quincy Larson on The Economics of Working Remotely: [Medium](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-economics-of-working-remotely-28d4173e16e2)
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