Re:Why companies who don’t embrace remote working are wrong
by votr on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @12:25PM
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In a mixed on-site/remote culture, I don't think you do get fair knowledge sharing. In that culture, the on-site workers will always have an edge. And they will be more likely the ones to get promoted.
For anyone looking for remote work, I suggest finding a "remote first" or "100% distributed" company.
Re:Why companies who don’t embrace remote working are wrong
by dkersten on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @12:30PM
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In a 100% distributed environment, how do you get the same knowledge sharing and culture? Or is it largely not an issue, because everybody communicates the same way (text chat, video chat, voice chat, screen sharing, email)?
Is company culture and the connection that people have as strong? What about the random after-work-pub-chats where people say whats on their minds or otherwise talk about things that they might not during the normal course of the day?
Maybe its not an issue when everyone is in the same boat.
I work from home 3 days a week, so I still have enough office-face-time for that not to be a problem, but we have a lot of 100% remote workers too (who aren't even in the same country) and who get left out of a lot of informal conversations just because they don't happen to be there when a group of us walks to the shop or whatever it is. We do fly everyone over every few months, and those periods are fantastic, but I still can't help but feel that the remote people are losing out and the company is losing out on their input outside of the normal work stuff.
Would love to hear others thoughts and experiences on this and ideas on how it could be remedied!