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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by jariel on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:32PM (#23156853)
"Face-to-face meetings are a justification for middle management to exist; "

Communicating is 1/2 of business; it's really odd that so many people have difficulty with this.

I think because as Engineers, we measure value in 'code' then we tend to diminish all the other aspects of the business or process.

Meetings can obviously be a waste but they are also critically important.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by jeffbee on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:41PM (#23156993)
Meaningful communication happens between your ICs. The weekly hour-long team meeting where the manager polls the room and nobody has anything to say is just a waste of everyone's time. Reducing what you have to say to an email has the effect of distilling and refining it, and in many cases leads to the realization that it was wrong to begin with, or doesn't warrant saying.
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by ryanwaggoner on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:20PM (#23157605)
Sounds like you need a new manager.
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by cmdshiftf4 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:31PM (#23157765)
Judging by the sheer level of resentment the poster holds for management, as a whole, it sounds more like it could easily be a case of their manager needing to replace a report.
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by icebraining on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:55PM (#23157240)
ICs?
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by TuringNYC on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:05PM (#23157429)
IC = Individual Contributor (worker who does not have a team under them)
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by guynamedloren on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:10PM (#23157488)
Individual Contributors. In this case, the engineers.
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