Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?

Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work? by pjettter on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:50PM (#22970969)

You generally miss the out of band communication, i.e. the conversations between other colleagues that you overhear, as well as the 'waterfountain' chat. Sure, these spaces can be created online, but in my experience the threshold is too high for such spontaneous things to happen.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work? by octorian on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:02PM (#22971147)

> i.e. the conversations between other colleagues that you overhear, as well as the 'waterfountain' chat.

Never underestimate the value of these conversations. Often, this simple ability to "overhear" others is EXACTLY how you avoid being left out of the loop and have some clue as to what's going on.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work? by minasss on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:28PM (#22971426)

this is a real issue even with in office presence; not everyone is in the loop and the solution, in my opinion, is not to keep everyone in the same room but to spread information in the company

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work? by octorian on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:48PM (#22972752)

But the people in charge are often oblivious to this situation, because it feels to them like everyone is in the loop. Mostly because "the loop" has been happening for a long time as a side-effect of people overhearing conversations.

Of course this problem also manifests when a company grows to the point where no one sits within earshot anymore.

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