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Do you physically try to touch your colleagues when together IRL?
Tap their arm/shoulder to get attention. And also I don’t live in a country where you have to think 5 hours about every human interaction lest you get sued.
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> However, if your work is about innovation and collaboration, Please, I've worked on plenty of successful new projects with a distributed team. This in-person bias is largely for people who don't know how to communicate effectively.
Please, I've worked on plenty of successful new projects with a fully onsite team. This remote bias is largely for people who don't know how to behave effectively around other people.
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> However, if your work is about innovation and collaboration, then it's going to be more effective to spend time together. Not convinced yet, at this point it just seems to be anecdotes, and pretty nebolous ones at that. I would be open to listen to this position if it was backed up by actual examples like "So we were working on Product X and team Y struggled with remote work in that and that way." Creativity/Innova…
I work in a small startup doing innovative software/hardware products. Some of the most 'creative' work we have ever done as a team was when the power went out and we finally spent time workshopping what a particular thing should be like with a whiteboard and pieces of paper. That was a defining moment and what we came up with on that day is kind of what we have today. Some of the best and most valuable insights in o…
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Those things are easier to recreate remotely. You can see their actual screen instead of watching on a projector or over their shoulder. Pair programming is even easy to do remotely, there are IDEs that support it. Hop in any kind of voice call and they can talk you through what they’re doing as they’re doing it.
What I meant is that I learned a lot watching senior members of the team interact. I was like a fly on the wall during their discussions just because I happened to be sitting near their desks when the discussion started. Or when there was an outage, I could overhear how they were debugging the issue. Also, I've run a remote work company over the pandemic. Maybe you don't feel working remotely is different, but many,…
This is why I always ask my coworkers to contact me via “open” channels instead of DMs, preferably async ones like PRs (which can start w/o any code or as very rough drafts). At a well run remote company visibility like this should be even easier than having to happen to be in the right place at the right time.
I now work for a company where I’m on site but I work on a team that is remote. I’ve made friends with the people around me and when I can’t get answers from my team I can ask the people around me. Being able to have an adhoc 5 min conversation to explain a very complex idea vs scheduling a zoom hours later saves an immense amount of time.
The difference in productivity is night and day. I’m so happy to be back in the office.
Autonomous working has proven to be a game changer for myself and others in my team. I can login and out when I need to (meetings/stand ups I obviously need to factor in) which allows me to take an actual break and go somewhere with my dog when I am feeling bogged down/unproductive. The ability to do this means that, when I return to the desk, I am refreshed and ready to tackle a problem with fresh eyes instead of gl…
> This rhetoric that remote work is bad for business seems to always come from people whom I suspect have an ulterior motive This sort of perspective is killing any real chance of having a productive conversation about the topic. There's a chance a person very similar to you simply disagrees with you on a very complex topic. There's pros and cons to the office and WFH alike. You clearly do well with WFH, and have goo…
0: which is a big sacrifice, since even 2 day hybrid can mean spending tens of hours a month sitting in a car or on transit, not engaging in either productive or self-sustaining activity, and it actively limits where people can live, further propping up cities with housing supply issues due to single-family zoning and a lack of rent control.
1: Not to say this is you, but I can imagine many candidates saying "yes" / "I excel in remote and on-site" to "do you believe you'll be productive in a remote role" even if they aren't sure this is the case for them, in order to look qualified for every open position.