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Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever

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Post by iso947 »

barry-cotter wrote: post #378
iso947 wrote: post #371

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The point being if someone in NY works 9-17, someone in UK May be happy working 13-22

Working different hours from all your friends and family gets old fast. It gets old fast even if your family is on another continent and all your friends are on the same schedule. Most English teachers who come to China start in training centres where they work three evenings and two full weekend days a week. Everyone either leaves China or gets a job with more normal hours eventually. I’m sure there are people who’d…

I have fried st hat have worked shift patterns (some 24/7, some more like 4x10 hours “unsociable”) for decades and are fine with it. I have one colleague who works 4-12 5 days a week for the last 6 years and wouldn’t change it for the world. Another does 11-23 or 11-19 3 or 4 days a week. Personally I get more done between 18 and 21 than most of the day, hence I work 10-15 then 18-21.

Wife used to work for a company with an office in Yorkshire where working hours finished at 2pm (7-2 no lunch). Horses for courses.

HN does seem to bias towards morning based extrovert urbanites in its group think. It’s nowhere near as universal as you might think.

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Post by webkike »

kubanczyk wrote: post #431
Aeolun wrote: post #385

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Maybe I misunderstand what redneck means in this context?

There is only one meaning of the term, at least nowadays. I think parent was sarcastic because part of definition of "redneck" is "uneducated", at least per OED.

Redneck means working class. Hence the red neck; the neck is sunburned from working outside

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Post by beckingz »

tayo42 wrote: post #304
rightbyte wrote: post #201

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The fad ended and became the norm. Like Agile/Scrum.

hoping wfh/remote kills the cargo culted agile/scrum stuff. a cute one liner, Regularly scheduled video chat meetings are anti pattern for remote work. That's my feeling at the moment. trying to schedule people around the world to do video chats is a lost cause. Its also trying to cram the office experience into remote work. Video chats are a waste, no one is engaged, probably because most meetings are useless. Like…

We keep our standups to less than 1 minute per person. 5 minutes in and out.

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Post by heyitsguay »

aliswe wrote: post #406
heyitsguay wrote: post #250

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This is a total tangent, but I'm an American with a partner from Stockholm, and we're interested in maybe moving over there when that is possible again. Do you have any suggestions or resources for getting to understand the tech scene around Stockholm, especially AI/computer vision stuff? Thanks!

I'm not really sure that I would be the best person to answer but if you would like to ask anything please do. I've work with over 250 clients and agencies over the years mostly in stockholm. Why not make it an Ask HN?

Good point! I can try but it's hit or miss whether it'll get any traction. I guess a couple questions you could help with are (1) are there any good resources for scoping the job market beyond putting "[whatever] jobs stockholm" into search engines, and (2) do you have any do's or don'ts for applying as an American not currently living in Sweden?

Thanks a lot for your perspective!

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Post by znpy »

doopy-loopy2 wrote: post #262
znpy wrote: post #98

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> I think it may be premature to celebrate the demise of the office. I agree, but mostly because high speed internet connections aren't that widespread yet.

lol, I think it might have more to do with the fact that humans are inherently social creatures.

You can have a social life outside work too, you know? ;)

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Post by doopy-loopy2 »

znpy wrote: post #455
doopy-loopy2 wrote: post #262

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lol, I think it might have more to do with the fact that humans are inherently social creatures.

You can have a social life outside work too, you know? ;)

yeah but you're still sitting in isolation for 8 hrs a day

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Post by somewhereoutth »

Izkata wrote: post #159
somewhereoutth wrote: post #95

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Have we regressed back to drawing things on the (cave) walls?? Thousands of years of linguistic progress out the window...

On the flipside, "a picture is worth a thousand words"...

I would say a picture is worth a thousand words for things that can be pictured. Most things actually can't, hence words.

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Post by dijit »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #210
JoshuaDavid wrote: post #63

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I think you're underestimating how bad the "something" people can come up with is. Think "weekly status reports to describe how you're doing on fixing a problem that was described through email, or an in-person meeting with someone, or a phone call, and never entered into a ticketing system at all". Also the mandatory fields are definitely a per-organization thing. At my org we have I think 3 mandatory fields, which…

If you don't have scripts that will fetch all your parameters and just have to fill in a couple of fields then you're doing it wrong.

Uh... I’m having trouble envisioning this, do you have any examples?

I ended up forcing my slack bot to issue POSTs to Jiras API out of frustration.

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Post by paulryanrogers »

mnm1 wrote: post #368
paulryanrogers wrote: post #243

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Because much of the US doesn't have capitalism for ISPs. It's largely monopolies and oligopolies all around. And not the nonprofit, regulated utility type.

That's exactly the end result of capitalism, at least in America, due to lack of proper regulations. There's nothing more capitalistic than a monopoly or duopoly. Oligopoly at worst. This is the goal every single capitalistic organization in the world strives for. From Google to Apple to drug dealers and slavers they all want monopoly or close to it. To claim that monopoly is not capitalistic is delusional. It's the…

Technically you may be correct. I meant capitalism, small 'c', as understood in the post-Standard-Oil era. If there is no competition then it's not truly a free market. So perhaps I should have written free-market capitalism.

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Post by kubanczyk »

webkike wrote: post #452
kubanczyk wrote: post #431

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There is only one meaning of the term, at least nowadays. I think parent was sarcastic because part of definition of "redneck" is "uneducated", at least per OED.

Redneck means working class. Hence the red neck; the neck is sunburned from working outside

It's a good theory, etymologically. But do check your favorite dictionary about the actual definition of the word.
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