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Re:Let employees work from home by sillyquiet on Friday May 19, 2017 @08:56AM (#14375103)
This is nonsense. Body language, tone, empathy: all are crucial to successful communication between people, even engineers, even technical communications, believe it or not.
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Re:Let employees work from home by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:00AM (#14375139)
Completely agree. Often times the emotion is even worse over email or IM - I've seen people (engineers) be a lot harsher and a lot less receptive to alternative ideas over a text medium than they ever would face-to-face.
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