Workers quitting over return-to-office policies

Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday May 30, 2022 @02:32PM (#31562062)

I'm not convinced by this. It works but for a subset of problems, not all of them. And it overlooks the fact that people might build on top of each other, I don't think that was taken in consideration. What about exploratory meetings, where people are trying to understand a problem in the first place, those happen to be synchronous because answers evolve in other questions.

Keep in mind that I never mentioned face-to-face, I just asked for synchronous time.

That being said, I'm open to explore the idea, I think I already do this for a certain subset of problems using Slack threads

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Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies by db48x on Monday May 30, 2022 @03:54PM (#31562975)

“Face–to–face” here covers any type of video conferencing, telephone calls, or even text chat that is happening in real time. As you said, these are synchronous interactions instead of asynchronous interactions.

> And it overlooks the fact that people might build on top of each other,

In the research that I read, the researchers came to the conclusion that most of the meeting time went to building consensus instead of actually thinking of new ideas. Some subset of the people in the meeting would be charismatic enough to dominate the discussion, and everyone else would contribute less than they otherwise would have.

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