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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by alecbz on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:23PM (#30534885)
A) I think there's a lot of confounders here (like the global pandemic and such) that make it to difficult to infer anything from correlations

B) Engineering work is pretty inherently long-term in its impact I think, especially at big public companies. Most such companies I think have "revenue engines" that'll continue to operate on their for a bit even without much engineering input

C) I suspect the negative aspects to remote, if they exist (I think they do, but :shrug:) are also going to be most visible in the long-run. Relationships between people and teams start to deteriorate, new hires don't feel as integrated, etc. I think these kinds of things take a while to slowly build up in an org before they start to have significant effects

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by zip1234 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:53PM (#30535216)
Many people end up doing remote work in person anyways at sufficiently large companies where in order to get things done they have to get on video call or phone.

The best solution I've found so far is to provide both as options, do meetings in a remote friendly way, and then have in person meetings for everyone a few times a year.

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by throwaway1777 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:07PM (#30537060)
There’s a big difference between working with other teams in other places and having your own team be remote. Most companies already had offsites and all hands and such before COVID.
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