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Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by ebiester on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:30AM (#11438969)
By the parent comment, I was assuming a distributed team.

Speaking from far-too-much experience, partially colocated teams are a productivity suck.

But I really do mean a fully distributed team needs a way to properly sketch things out. One of the biggest weaknesses I've seen is that people get limited by the equipment. So long as that's a separate piece of equipment from your video conferencing, it should be fine.

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Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by bunderbunder on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @01:06PM (#11440077)
Yea, with partial co-location you need to budget at least 25% of your person-hours to hostage negotiations and koombeya meetings about people's hurt feelings.

0/10, would not try again.

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