Remote work is going to be the future - aided by VR technology collaboration in teams will become much easier.
I already look forward to living in a little house on cheap ground somewhere in the nowhere and do my fork from there :)
We Don’t Simply Get Remote Jobs, We Join Remote Teams
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#52> In remote team, we get to experience the culture at its most naked form. There is no catered lunch or a hip office with table tennis table. Everything artificial is stripped away. I totally disagree with this. The most naked form of communication is (and IMHO always will be) face to face. I can't tell how many countless times many emails were exchanged before simply speaking face to face solved the problem. Working…
Seriously, videoconfering (hangouts, webex, zoom.us, appear.in, etc...) solves this. As a matter of fact I can get a face to face meeting faster with remote worker than on-site workers.
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#53I'm partially remote working (RW) at an organization that is slowly rolling back its RW culture(1). The motto for this goes like 'teams work better if they are collocated, yada, yada'. The real reason is that managers want to feel in control (plus they want to drive away a lot of people by taking RW away). "Culture" is used as a smoke screen for more sinister incentives. (I can say that with confidence because I can…
One huge mistake some companies do is treat remote vs on-site workers differently, making on-site people feel bad when they "work from home". If remote is available it should be available to everybody who doesn't need to be physically in the office, otherwise resentment starts to build up.
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#54> In remote team, we get to experience the culture at its most naked form.
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Re: We Don’t Simply Get Remote Jobs, We Join Remote Teams
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point, thank you.
Interested in your `conference talks about databases` is there any online links to your talks? also your email address strikes me as being a bit odd. I guess you don't want the bots finding your real email address. cheers.
Yep, anonymity is funny. I'm not sure about the recordings, and presentations are not in English, and are made as a background for talking, so reading them would be useless.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Technology is there - Jira, Slack, Skype, GitHub, email... There is absolutely no excuse to not have remote jobs.
Did you not read most of my comment? The technology is there, it wasn't ten years ago. Now, it comes down to management setting strict guidelines and enforcing them. What good is it to pay for Jira accounts when nobody uses them? Or what good is it to have Github and everybody ends up hosting their own private repos? That is definitely a management mandate, and logistically, it's a lot easier to manage a group if the…
Then maybe we are not on the same page. I would assume company is already using one or another project tracking tool or distributed source control. I can't think of companies that are not doing this as being relevant.
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#57My team just started a large project; a few of us work remotely and a few are in an office. For the project, we opened a Zoom video channel, and all sit there with video chat running on our second monitors. It's working out great . We very much have the be-able-to-pop-in-for-a-question thing going on like you would in a project war room. I'm thinking of making it a standing thing one day weekly to work this way. Ther…
I've long assumed that prior to HMDs taking off, we'd see people work with a video screen at the side extreme of their desk, showing a view of someone not physically adjacent to them, and the reverse for that colleague. So, you'd have a representation of a teammate beside you. Large LCDs are cheap. Connectivity is getting to the point that this wouldn't tax some office connections. Has anyone tried it? Obviously peop…
This solves some peoples' problems at the expense of others.
A big attraction of remote work to me is that I don't have the feeling of being overlooked while "in the zone" (which tends to mean that "the zone" never really happens). Video might actually be worse in practise than an open office. Could turn it off, of course, but it's the kind of thing that could easily end up as a "not a team player" flag in the modern software world.
There are things like PukkaTeam[1] which go for snapshots rather than video. Less bandwidth and perhaps marginally less intrusive, but still means people are looking at you...
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#58> In remote team, we get to experience the culture at its most naked form. There is no catered lunch or a hip office with table tennis table. Everything artificial is stripped away. I totally disagree with this. The most naked form of communication is (and IMHO always will be) face to face. I can't tell how many countless times many emails were exchanged before simply speaking face to face solved the problem. Working…
> I can't tell how many countless times many emails were exchanged before simply speaking face to face solved the problem. I can't tell you how many times being able to look something up to respond in a more concrete way has solved countless meetings.
I totally agree! I hate being stuck in a meeting and thinking, "If I could hit Google right now, we'd have this answered already."
Luckily, this company doesn't have many meetings, so it isn't a big deal.
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#59"Communicating with co-workers while working remotely is not as simple as going up to their desk and starting a conversation." Probably the main reason I want to get a remote job. Constant disruptions.
A recent high-priority project allowed me to tell people they couldn't bother me for 6 of my 8 hours in the office. It's been awesome for my morale and my productivity both.
I love helping others, but being interrupted constantly is incredibly frustrating. It can wait until tomorrow.
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#60It is somehow ironic that not so long ago we could send ships on a 4 month trip around the word, could manage the construction of amazing buildings or sent armies to fight wars on the end of the word without being able to communicate with the people doing their job/duty. Nowdays we can barely let change the font size of a button on a webpage without having a stand up meeting or a conference call.
Not really.
A lot of people died doing things that way. A lot.