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Why would you bother staying at work if you have nothing to do. Take your laptop home and VPN for OC issues if that’s why.

But I can’t unders how you can have nothing to do. If you feel like doing nothing, that I understand. Some days just don’t work. But having nothing to do is quite surprising.

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I once heard this described as “in-office on-call”.

If your work is done but your collaborators or subordinates aren’t then you never know when they’ll need your help.

People get pretty bristly when they need you and can’t find you. Better for you to be there, or be officially sanctioned to be gone.

I like to work from home when there isn’t much work to do, so then I can have my laptop.

It’s common for us to have a code freeze, where we do not have any items in our backlog.

That's just piss poor management on several layers.

Perhaps have release branches and hotfix there, merging into master? May be a more enjoyable development cycle.

Unfortunately we only branch on release. We don’t have separate branches. Consider it as everyone working on master, and no merges m, just code reviews.

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