Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring

Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by abandonliberty on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:36AM (#15542345)

Many players are already moving in the opposite direction. It doesn't mean that remote is not possible, but that remote is more challenging than colocation.

Consider: agile frameworks at their core focus on improving communication, but remote increases the barriers to communication. For humans, online social contact doesn't provide the same benefits as as f2f. It makes depression worse, not better. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/

I know someone at Amazon who gets flown halfway around the world over 4 times a year. They're not remote, but a frugal company like amazon decides it's important enough for them to visit headquarters regularly.

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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by rdtsc on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:33PM (#15546961)

f2f is important greed and there is problem flying someone over 4 times over in year. Heck even more. It's the idea that it has to be the default. I work remotely but when we brainstorm an idea we like to fly to a site and hang around there for a week, white-boarding and socializing afterwards.

Timezones make communications harder as well, etc.

However I'll take these downsides vs the upsides.

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