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Re:Remote First at Quora by rodrigodlu on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:16AM (#23997196)
As a guy that married with a girl that I did know first on MMOs (11 years of marriage, after 3 years playing Ragnarok Online), and played some others (WoW, WoT) for a while, connected entire day using Teamspeak, I do not feel this a negative point.

We can workaround and I made many acquaintances online.

Now I have a 5 year child and I turned my bedroom into a office. I just educated her during the last year (before covid) that this is a possibility.

I promised her that after 6pm my schedule is hers and we have fun after that.

Not commuting equals 5 extra hours / week of fun with my dear little girl, playing some games, doing activities like painting, board games and so on.

For me it was very positive.

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Re:Remote First at Quora by rodrigodlu on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:22AM (#23997244)
The main problem I had on physical office was disruptions to answer questions and many meetings.

I was advocate for async comms (PROPERLY using Slack, Teams, etc), but not everyone was on the same page.

Stopping my concentration on code architecture, code writing, managing AWS infrastructure to give random consultancy, or meetings with little purpose was a real point of pain for my productivity

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