Ask HN: Distributed teams

Posted by krummas on Monday May 10, 2010 @03:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So, recently there has been a lot of talk about how good distributed teams are, but, i'm having problems finding companies that actually do it. So, it would be awesome to get a list of companies that allow for people to work from home most/all of the time.

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Re:Ask HN: Distributed teams by pmjoyce on Monday May 10, 2010 @05:12PM (#1335951)

When I worked at Cisco Systems circa 2003/4 myself and the other data warehouse developers came into the office once every two weeks, the rest of the time was at home. I wasn't directly employed by them (I worked for a small consultancy) but the same rules applied for permies on the same team.

Right now I contract for a large investment bank and the dev team are rarely all in the office any given day. This is due to a simple desk space shortage - I work from home 2days every week.

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Re:Ask HN: Distributed teams by jwegan on Monday May 10, 2010 @06:12PM (#1336102)

When I worked at IBM, one of the guys I worked with worked from home pretty much all the time. Distributed teams can work if the people are highly motivated and responsive, but in my experience it bogged things down since I wasn't able to get timely responses to questions.

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