The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories. A busy office … chops your day into tiny bits. … filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption.

It’s incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

Meaningful work, creative work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time. But in the modern workplace, those long stretches just can’t be found. Instead, it’s just one interruption after another.

When you work on your own, far away from the buzzing swarm at headquarters, you can settle into your own productive zone. You can actually get work done—the same work that you couldn’t get done at work!

Jason Fried.