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Re: Coinbase will be a remote-first company

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Post by tspike » Fri, May 22, 2020, 1:42 AM UTC

toraobo wrote: post #12

Cookingboy wrote: post #7

I'm really curious, how many people actually prefer WFH permanently vs. just having the flexibility to WFH when wanted. If I wanted to stay home forever I'd have just taken a remote consulting job a long time ago, but I enjoy going to office and there is a lot of benefits that you don't get from being remote 100%. I've also made very good friends at work and I see my coworkers as much more than just another GitHub ac…

I like going to the office because it offers a very nice solid separation between "home" and "work" life.

I have a detached office in my back yard. It’s a wonderful middle ground.

Re: Coinbase will be a remote-first company

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Post by meowface » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:34 AM UTC

nogabebop23 wrote: post #128

meowface wrote: post #75

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Or it means they chose to look for an office job despite knowing remote jobs were available, because they prefer having real-life interaction with co-workers or other physical benefits. I personally far prefer WFH/anywhere. But I've always been very introverted and reclusive. I love the freedom of being able to work alone from any location, but I know many or perhaps most people crave some kind of in-person socializi…

>> I love the freedom of being able to work alone from any location is the alternative to working in an office really working alone? Should it not be moving your interactions and realtionships to alternative channels, not eliminating them?

Sure, if someone prefers that. I'm just a hermit, myself, most of the time. I generally prefer being alone. I feel more free and more comfortable in my own skin.

If I crave social contact, I message a friend online, or rarely, call them. If I don't crave it, then I don't.

Re: Coinbase will be a remote-first company

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Post by take_a_breath » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:28 PM UTC

lstodd wrote: post #69

Cookingboy wrote: post #59

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>This basically means that they did not modify their lifestyle for remote work. I really can't understand how one can be this shallow minded. Maybe the life style required to make remote work effective is not the desirable lifestyle for everyone? Maybe people value different things in life? Or maybe some people actually enjoy the place of their work and the physical presence of their coworkers? >Purging office bullsh…

What I say is that _if_ they would have changed their lifestyle _then_ they would not have craved the office experience. There is nothing shallow about this observation. If they chose not to it's fine. They just missed a different and, in my opinion, a better experience. Their choice. I cannot in good faith come up with a type of work that genuinely requires being in an office. Not on a workfloor, not in a lab, not i…

==Social aspects of offices are overrated. Less formal association is better if only because no one is forced into them.==

Do you have any data or research to back up this assertion? How is it rated today, how should it be rated instead?

Re: Coinbase will be a remote-first company

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Post by unsignedint » Fri, May 22, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

oskrim wrote: post #149

partyboat1586 wrote: post #85

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Your work buddys today will be gone tomorrow. Most work relationships are shallow and transitory. If that's your thing because you're extroverted then great but a lot of people in tech are more ambiverted or introverted, they value deeper more meaningful relationships. What I see a lot is introverted or ambiverted people tricked into believing their work buddies will call after they leave the company. Tricked into sp…

I've established a significant portion of my important friendships through work. I think it happens more easily in smaller companies for sure. Big corporations seem more hollow.

I don't know how you would define yourself, but my theory is more introverted you are more impacts there are to the shift to WFH. (I find myself introverted and I feel this will impact me in long run...)

At work, it is often a routine, that you talk to people, maybe befriending some of the frequent encounters. That dynamic is reduced if not lost, with WFH.

Extroverted people actively pursue social activities outside of the work, but if you are not, then it is possible work could be only opportunity you are speaking with people outside of you circle.