People love working remotely

Post by thecatspaw » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 2:33 PM UTC

LanceH wrote: post #63

g051051 wrote: post #16

I was full-time WFH for 6 wonderful years. I was happy, my productivity was off the charts, I was saving tons of money because I didn't have to spend it on my car and clothes, I had extra time that I wasn't wasting on my commute, etc. Then, we had a big shake-up. A bunch of senior people left, and new "leadership" came in to "transform" our workplace. All WFH was cancelled in our division (in spite of still being off…

25 years of this and not once has someone responsible for implementing the open plan included themselves in that plan. Sales and marketing somehow require offices as well. I've heard of the mythical "president in a cubicle" but never seen it. I would really have more respect if they just came out and said, "we're going cheap."

Post by raxxorrax » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

muro wrote: post #56

coolvision wrote: post #29

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>white noise over the speakers I'm fine with open spaces, but this would be the final straw for me

I like the white (or pink?) noise. I expected to hate it and found the idea ridiculous, but it helped focus in an open space office.

Post by nerdponx » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 2:45 PM UTC

LanceH wrote: post #63

g051051 wrote: post #16

I was full-time WFH for 6 wonderful years. I was happy, my productivity was off the charts, I was saving tons of money because I didn't have to spend it on my car and clothes, I had extra time that I wasn't wasting on my commute, etc. Then, we had a big shake-up. A bunch of senior people left, and new "leadership" came in to "transform" our workplace. All WFH was cancelled in our division (in spite of still being off…

25 years of this and not once has someone responsible for implementing the open plan included themselves in that plan. Sales and marketing somehow require offices as well. I've heard of the mythical "president in a cubicle" but never seen it. I would really have more respect if they just came out and said, "we're going cheap."

Post by SketchySeaBeast » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 2:50 PM UTC

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #37

ReptileMan wrote: post #22

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I don't know. For me commute is the most pointlessly wasted time a person could do. And I have played lineage. So as long as your commute is 10 seconds home office beats real any time. At least until we get the whole teleportation thing nailed down.

The commute at my last job was around 2 minutes (walking), 5 if I stopped at Starbucks on the way. Not as low as 10 seconds, but still a great life.

Post by squeaky-clean » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

g051051 wrote: post #45

codingdave wrote: post #36

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> a 15 minute fact-to-face is better... Good thing we have better tools for videoconferencing than ever. I can have a 15 minute face-to-face with anyone in my company, no matter where in the world they are.

They cite this particular bit of idiocy from the Agile Manifesto: > The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. They fail to realize that when it was written in 2001, communication technologies were far inferior to what we have now. So that face to face should be updated to something like "immediate" or "real time".