Re:Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office politics
by motohagiography on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:18PM
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Most ambiguous thing I have found about remote work is how a decision gets made in a group, and then who directs the action on it.
It's too easy to talk past one another on conferences. Add flat organizations where you are supposed to be able to read the dynamic between the lines, then local culture differences, and you can end up in passive aggression hell.
Without physical presence, you need clear, logical rules in place.
The article splits the main challenges of "loneliness," and "collaboration," almost evenly. I don't get loneliness, but collaboration and distance are almost definitely conflicting needs.
I would be surprised if the rules for managing distance being a constraint on the dynamic aspect of collaboration was not a hard zero sum trade off.
It's too easy to talk past one another on conferences. Add flat organizations where you are supposed to be able to read the dynamic between the lines, then local culture differences, and you can end up in passive aggression hell.
Without physical presence, you need clear, logical rules in place.
The article splits the main challenges of "loneliness," and "collaboration," almost evenly. I don't get loneliness, but collaboration and distance are almost definitely conflicting needs.
I would be surprised if the rules for managing distance being a constraint on the dynamic aspect of collaboration was not a hard zero sum trade off.