Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh...
by Domenic_S on Monday January 23, 2017 @02:57PM
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> isn't that every manager's dream?
Depends... are you working on the most important stuff first?
I'd rather have a strict 9-5'er that's always working in priority order than a 12-2am'er that's scattered and not delivering important work.
IMO the most important thing for success in remote work is having a prioritized backlog and defined iteration. It's way too easy to lose hours and days down an unimportant rabbit hole without these things.
I'd say many places don't have enough PM rigor to make remote work sensible.
Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh...
by deadbunny on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:04PM
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Not sure how you've made the jump from "office based staff know all priorities and remote staff don't". That's a completely different issue.
Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh...
by Domenic_S on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:13PM
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Yeah, I didn't say that at all. I said: "many places don't have enough PM rigor to make remote work sensible."
Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh...
by meetri on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:02PM
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i don't think that's a fair comparison given the likely hood of the reverse also being true. Personally I like to work at home when I have a huge complex task so that I can focus and spend all my time on it. I can easily when WFH start work at 8am and work til 2am because I can't sleep until big problems are solved. I also feel more inclined to hang back take my time to do needed research, where in the office I may not do that so It doesn't appear that I am just browsing the web. Overall, I can have complex tasks completed in a couple days WFH where if I came in to the office it could take weeks.
Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh...
by geoka9 on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:18PM
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Remote doesn't mean isolated. PMs can and should do their job regardless of whether people are remote or not.
Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh...
by woot01 on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:09PM
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It's probably time to call it virtual-first, rather than remote-first, cause remote makes people think isolated.
Re:If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you sh...
by OJFord on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:52PM
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> cause remote makes people think isolated
Which, of course, it is.
Isolated: "separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary" [0], "separate from others" [1].
Remote: "far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away" [0], "separated by an interval or space greater than usual" [1].
I sometimes wonder if many of the "on-site only" employers even realize how much they are missing out on. For example, when I'm in the office, I work from 9 to 6, period. When I work for a remote gig, I can be working 12 hours a day without realizing it - my job literally becomes my life. I understand that it may not be very healthy for me, but isn't that every manager's dream? Yes, you have to make sure people like what they are doing, but that's a different problem and relevant even for onsite gigs.