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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by sam0x17 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:14PM (#27376050)
It's funny, all of the things you mention are things I would cite as perks of working remotely at my current org. I guess it depends on how you implement remote work. For example we typically have multiple departments running one or more "open calls" all day that anyone can wander into and hear what's going on. Engineering in particular makes heavy use of this, especially those who like pair programming.
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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by ripper1138 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:39PM (#27376226)
Do people join the open calls just for specific reasons? Or do they join all day? An open call is a half decent alternative during forced WFH but it’s not the same. Random hallway conversations are just that: random. An open call wouldn’t be the same unless everyone was in the call all day.
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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by thrower123 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:12PM (#27376465)
There's a Teams channel that people chat in all day long. I've had to mute it, because otherwise it's just binging and bonging and flashing popups in my face constantly.

If people want something, they can send an email. Those aren't ephemeral.

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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by sam0x17 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:23AM (#27381784)
People who like to do that sit in it all day. If there are multiple conversations going on they will split into the 2nd and 3rd channels. Some people like to hear the breathing and typing of their colleagues all day, some do not.
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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by sam0x17 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:54AM (#27382268)
To answer your question more specifically, they can be truly random conversations. The other day I talked for two hours with someone about neural networks (not related to our work) while coding.
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