Re:Cost cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley startups
by TeMPOraL on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:35AM
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> I worked for several years with a medium size company that had a couple of hundred staff all around the globe. I'd argue the amount of non project specific, but still technical discussion was higher than when I worked in an office.
And the good thing? When you're working remotely, you can tune out those conversations if you need to focus on something. Try that when people in your office decide to have a room-wide chat.
VoIP exists. Video conferencing exists. Meetings are usually better when kept short, so the reduced/shortened meetings are a positive thing.
> And the communication is not as easy as you can do in person.
Remote working means you have to communicate via either text, audio, audio + video, or diagrams.. So the only thing you can't really do, is touch the other person. Im pretty sure most work places discourage that kind of "communication" anyway.
> Also some ideas/conversations sparks during casual talking, if remote, those small things will be missed.
Why, because you think remote workers don't have casual conversation? I worked for several years with a medium size company that had a couple of hundred staff all around the globe. I'd argue the amount of non project specific, but still technical discussion was higher than when I worked in an office.