Re:Remote work is killing big offices. Cities must change to...
by runlevel1 on Monday June 06, 2022 @11:51PM
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I've been missing the number of great ideas that would come up during lunchtime chats and while hanging out in the office kitchen.
I'm a big proponent of remote work, but I haven't yet found a way to recreate those experiences over video chat.
Re:Remote work is killing big offices. Cities must change to...
by CrashedSandal on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:46AM
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I thought many companies had weekly "chit-chat" meetings over video chat for just hanging around and doing nothing ? My place doesn't have it and we are not a place that welcomes or listens to any kind of ideas so they never cared about that.
Re:Remote work is killing big offices. Cities must change to...
by lumost on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @11:51AM
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Often these are poorly attended, for better or worse the office forces people together for a set period of time. Even out of boredom some folks will come up with ideas, when at home you can just cruise HN or do something else entirely.
When in the office, I had discussions, meetings, and presentations which were all geared mainly to support the idea of the office culture over it's deliverable results. While I see people slacking more while remote, they also aren't creating busy work.
We'll see how it shakes out over the next few years. I suspect that remote teams will have an easier time with recruitment and retention, while being slightly more productive than in-office teams. In-office teams will probably be slightly more innovative by virtue of colocation with non-remote teams and a semi-forced need to do "something" with the time.