The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers

Post by wanderingmind » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

jokethrowaway wrote: post #106

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doesn't have to be ground breaking research, could just be ideas for product iteration or for an employees own side project. Benefits individuals more than the company really

The way this benefits the company is that individuals are happy and create relationships with coworkers making work more enjoyable and making it harder to quit. Companies wants you to feel like a family so you'll stay for a lower salary or so you'll accept more grueling conditions. Knowing this, from a company perspective, remote can work if individuals have a way to create relationships. In my experience, some peopl…

Post by jpindar » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 2:31 AM UTC

ren_engineer wrote: post #87

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The key thing is here: > over the first six months of 2020 Those first six months were pretty rough. The large majority of people had little to no experience working remotely, so many folks didn't have a good home office environment, and there was a general sense of being unsure if this would just be temporary or if employees should settle in for the long haul. Many orgs didn't have good practices set up for remote w…

I think the hardest thing remote work has to replicate is just random small talk between smart people that can lead to great ideas. This speech from Richard Hamming about Bell Labs sticks in my mind, especially the segment about open vs closed office doors. I'd say remote work is objectively better for pure productivity in terms of getting things done, but you run the risk of limiting innovation I think https://www.c…

Post by nikau » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 2:42 AM UTC

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I think the hardest thing remote work has to replicate is just random small talk between smart people that can lead to great ideas. This speech from Richard Hamming about Bell Labs sticks in my mind, especially the segment about open vs closed office doors. I'd say remote work is objectively better for pure productivity in terms of getting things done, but you run the risk of limiting innovation I think https://www.c…

Maybe if Microsoft would make an MS teams feature that would operate more like discord then that random smalltalk would happen.

Post by mianos » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 2:48 AM UTC

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Behind this is one of the problems. In a corporate environment you can't choose the best tool for the job at hand, collaboration. MS Teams is probably the worst tool of its class in this area yet it is, evidently, chosen by people in higher positions who make decisions based solely on their opinion and for the sake of complying with corporate standards, once again, not based on evidence, but, by some MS white paper s…

If even that much thought was given to it. Teams comes with Office, so it is quite possible that alternatives were never really examined.

Post by datameta » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 2:52 AM UTC

jpindar wrote: post #153

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I think the hardest thing remote work has to replicate is just random small talk between smart people that can lead to great ideas. This speech from Richard Hamming about Bell Labs sticks in my mind, especially the segment about open vs closed office doors. I'd say remote work is objectively better for pure productivity in terms of getting things done, but you run the risk of limiting innovation I think https://www.c…

When I engage in random small talk between smart people that can lead to great ideas, it's usually on Discord.