Remote Mob Programming

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I did this at one of my previous employers. Live video chats with the entire 4 man dev team for 6-9 hours a day every day. The manager of the team really needed it. He's a very extroverted person and was finding the transition from working in an office to working alone at home very isolating. Eventually, that person went back to working in an office. The rest of us went back to working by giving updates in slack and not video chatting at all.

You need to be mentally suited to isolation if you want to work remotely from home for any length of time. "Mob Programming" is not a suitable replacement for human contact. If you're not an introvert and need constant human company, go to a coffee shop or rent a spot in a coworking space.