Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by adrianN on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:14PM
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It is good for your work to have a rough idea what your colleagues are working on and what they're thinking about. This eventually builds "gut feeling" about who might be able to help you with your current problems if you're stuck. Just chit-chatting with them seems to be an effective way of sharing this information.
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by vlunkr on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:28PM
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This is what I worry about losing with remote work. I'm functioning just fine now because I already knew all my co-workers well before we started WFH. But if I were to go to a new company and start remote, I would feel completely lost. All the chit-chat can feel like a waste of time, but IMO a lot of useful information about the company is transferred that way. And there's no way I would jump on a video call with someone I don't personally know to just talk for an hour. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.