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Re:Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects by arcticbull on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:35PM (#24403526)
> -- For the budding young developer who can't wait to show ideas to teammates and demonstrate being a go-getter by asking random questions and finding unaddressed issues to innovate on, WFH might be terrible. You're going to schedule time to fortuitously run into the senior person who takes an interest in your idea?

Isn't this the worst case outcome? How are those young go-getters supposed to turn into the senior engineer who can actually thrive in the work-from-home world?

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Re:Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects by edoceo on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:44PM (#24403572)
Oh, one of my junior players has this as an issue now. And it manifest as scope creep for everything we assign. They just see other things that could be added, or add work to other layers of the stack. It's easier to keep folk on track when they are closer.

It's why we use an always on RTC thing so it's easy for crew to ping me ad-hoc for guidance.

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