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I'm the CTO of 17hats. The entire engineering team works remotely. It's not as challenging as you seem to suggest. Right now is the best time ever to be remote. Excellent tools like Slack and Speak really help comms. We pair program very often by sshing into a tmux session which makes any lag close to nil. We use Trello for sprints. And Invision for product work. It's extremely efficient. We have our usual retrospect…
Slack has been an invaluable tool to help with socialization, and keeping up with what's going on in the office. Also helps with visibility issues.
I could happily sustain this pace of work for a long time, I think--though, when school is over, it might be a bit more challenging.
I'm the CTO of 17hats. The entire engineering team works remotely. It's not as challenging as you seem to suggest. Right now is the best time ever to be remote. Excellent tools like Slack and Speak really help comms. We pair program very often by sshing into a tmux session which makes any lag close to nil. We use Trello for sprints. And Invision for product work. It's extremely efficient. We have our usual retrospect…
It's really great that working remotely (anecdotally) works well for your team. It also doesn't work well for some folks. Like any other approach to business, YMMV, but discounting the disadvantages that have been enumerated for you is explicitly ignoring the fact that some people, including those who are top performing employees in their fields, prefer not to work remotely.
It's best to make the decision and your own recommendations acknowledging there are trade offs, no?
I'm the CTO of 17hats. The entire engineering team works remotely. It's not as challenging as you seem to suggest. Right now is the best time ever to be remote. Excellent tools like Slack and Speak really help comms. We pair program very often by sshing into a tmux session which makes any lag close to nil. We use Trello for sprints. And Invision for product work. It's extremely efficient. We have our usual retrospect…
What's Speak?
I'm the CTO of 17hats. The entire engineering team works remotely. It's not as challenging as you seem to suggest. Right now is the best time ever to be remote. Excellent tools like Slack and Speak really help comms. We pair program very often by sshing into a tmux session which makes any lag close to nil. We use Trello for sprints. And Invision for product work. It's extremely efficient. We have our usual retrospect…
What's Speak?
Super low bandwidth audio/video/screensharing.
Most want you to already have experience working remotely :|
I would like to find out how hard working remotely can be. Unfortunately, finding a FT remote software dev position is really hard. Most want you to already have experience working remotely :|
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What's Speak?
speak.io Super low bandwidth audio/video/screensharing.
The loosening of tribalism from your job (which between 20-40 could be your main "tribe") may be the root cause of the sense of isolation/loneliness.
I wonder if it's as much the emergence of meetups & co-working spaces rather than the online tools (Slack, Speak, Trello etc) which will grow the remote workforce.