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Re:34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to fu... by politician on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:04PM (#26729480)
Are you suggesting that if people were in the office for 40 hours a week, that you would expect to get a sustained rate of 280 days worth of work done per week?

Or are you saying that given the creative thinking time alone that accumulated slowly over a period of time WFH, that the team was able to make 7 days worth of progress in one hour primarily due to the fact that everyone had plenty of time to understand the issues and the pains associated?

Are you confusing _peak_ with _sustained_ productivity?

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Re:34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to fu... by tezzer on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:16PM (#26732843)
No, I'm not confusing anything. I'm stating my team made a great deal of progress when we got together in the office over a sticky problem; and attributing the progress to the random directions the conversation and problem solving effort took when we were in one room bouncing ideas off each other and poking hardware together.
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Re:34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to fu... by politician on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:48PM (#26742307)
Look, I miss having whiteboard conversations too, but if throwing all of the developers into a smelly open plan mosh pit that's a 45 minute commute from home 5 days a week just for that clutch hour of collaboration, count me out. It's just not worth it.
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