The developer wondered if IT professionals work on the beach in a chaise longue with a MacBook and a smoothie, like on posters for IT courses from the 2010s. What do IT professionals think about workcation?

Yulia Khoretska, FullStack (Angular/ Node.js)

After doing basic work for an hour on the couch at home, my back is already squeaking. What kind of chaise lounge is that, I would definitely walk with the letter «zu» then.

Pavlo Garinets, Senior SFCC Web Developer, Nest.js Backend Developer

Not once in 9 years have I worked like in the myths about IT workers.

Georgy Cherenkov, CIO/CTO at a mid-size company

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I was in both zones +/- 6-8 hours from the client. It’s hard. It requires a schedule that should still be in the family. If you’re alone — maybe no problem. I worked, swam, worked — and then just took a vacation. But I was on vacation.

So, maybe if I lived there for half a year, it would be OK. But I was still a tourist.

Svitlana Ivashkiv, Technical Writer

Now the workplace looks like this. Camping, forest, but there is a connection. It’s all Albania.

Vladyslav Burdeniuk, Senior Software Engineer

Maybe with VR glasses, because I haven’t seen monitors with such brightness that it would be comfortable to work outside in sunny weather.

Natalia Kavchak, Recruitment Lead

Oh! I worked like that for several weeks. Sea, sun, beach, I’m lying around in a swimsuit under an umbrella with a laptop and leading a team for 8 hours, conducting interviews without a camera, solving hot cases. Between fires, I ran to buy clothes without taking my laptop out of my sight. True, I forgot to say that it was my vacation — the first in 2 years. And yes, formally you can have both the beach and work, why not.

Mariana Dementieva, QA Engineer & Lead

The sun illuminates the MacBook screen. No matter how much I wanted to go to the beach, I had to sit in my room/suite/house. Because I can’t work when nothing is visible on the screen.

Without two monitors it’s unreal. You correctly noticed that for this you need to specifically choose a day without complex and urgent tasks.

Veronika Zavhorodnia, UI/UX Designer

noooooooooooooooooooo … sometimes it’s me, but I’m not a fan, when I go somewhere to rest, I sit at my laptop wherever I have to… but not on the beach itself — it’s a laptop! Sand baths are contraindicated for it. And in general, it’s a different story — to pretend that you’re high, sweating under a fan, squinting in the sun and trying to do everything-everything-everything on the assignments before the evening outing «on the family promenade.»