Re:Can gaming become the happy-hour for remote teams?
by Mountain_Skies on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:12AM
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Even if you find a game that has a gender balanced community, that's no guarantee that it will be as attractive to an equal number of each gender on your team. Also if you're going for gender equality why would you not also go for racial and ethnic equality too? At my last job we had three developers from Nigeria. All thought games (excluding actual physical sports) were for children and looked negatively upon adults who played games. How would you not end up excluding them?
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Re:Can gaming become the happy-hour for remote teams?
by RHSeeger on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:18AM
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Having been the person that despised going to the various sportsball games that everyone at the company went to, and wound up being excluded without so much as a second thought? I'm not sure I'd worry too much about excluding them. No matter what you pick, there's bound to be some people that just can't enjoy it.
Re:Can gaming become the happy-hour for remote teams?
by kd5bjo on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:04PM
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Why pick only one thing? If this is a weekly or monthly event, there’s no reason it has to be the same every time; why not have a variety of events on rotation so that you’re not alienating the same set of people every time?