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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:06PM (#27455939)
It is an interesting question. I have two new team members we added 2 months ago. Neither is very technical and, admittedly, it can get challenging sometimes, because pre-WFH, I could have just showed them what to do instead of spending 20 minutes trying to explain what I want them to do. I could technically grab a screen, but.. apparently, neither learns well that way and just yesterday I had some really odd issues with sound and MS Teams screen sharing.

Anyway, as much as I love remote, in person has its benefits.. like being able to strangle someone when needed.

Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by unsui on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:14PM (#27463668)
I've found the opposite.

As a developer, WFH actually facilitates things like pair programming and peer review. Especially for introverts like myself, it is much easier to do a screenshare of your IDE and review code in a group than try to sit next to each other or review code on a big screen in a meeting room. This has become a thing for us now (let's jump on a zoom and i'll show you quickly), for anything that's too complex to slack.

The ability to easily screen share and record sessions as needed means I can get the big picture in the initial live session and review the details later via recording as needed (especially those nitpicky code details nobody remembers the first time around).

I will miss this when we have to go back to the office.

Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by olau on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:33AM (#27460539)
Videoconferencing tooling is still awful.

Bad latency, pixelated screensharing, frequent issues with sound and video. On top of that hardware problems with bad microphone setups, cross talk, etc.

I hope that at some point someone is going to show up and take this seriously. Treat it like a medical service, or a least close to. But I'm not holding my breath. I believe it was least year that I read that John Carmack had measured the latency of his cell phone and found it to in the vicinity of 700 ms.

Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by raywu on Thursday June 10, 2021 @12:38AM (#27456711)
Unrelated: how do you remember your username?
Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by warkdarrior on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:09AM (#27456883)
That's the sound his co-workers make when he strangles them!
Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by square_usual on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:00AM (#27457718)
Not OP, but as someone who's used such handles in the past, using a password manager.
Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by Gh0stRAT on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:39AM (#27461291)
I'm not OP but it almost looks like they got the username and password fields mixed-up when they were creating their account.

For all we know, their password might be something like "remote_worker"!

Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by AndrewDucker on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:53AM (#27457652)
My guess would be that that's a phrase.
Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by kmlx on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:05AM (#27459672)
or you never log out