Re:Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High
by yrgulation on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:39PM
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I see your point. Cross domain setups may struggle with remote work, as indeed devs needs to sometimes sit next to domain experts to better understand what they are aiming to achieve. Wondering if some of that can be mitigated by better story writing and specing or hybrid work, but either way i dont have a solution that makes sense as i have never been in your position. You did however show me a new perspective, as i assumed a tech company or the crud types that dont need that level of interdisciplinary communication.
Re:Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High
by s1artibartfast on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:13PM
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Happy to provide my perspective. Of course I acknowledge that you are certainly right that some types of work can be fully remote or even benefit from it. After all, there's always been types of work with clear requirements that can be shopped out or contracted.
Anyone who claims that everything can be work from home or everything must be in office is missing the big picture.
I work in biotech and of my projects has probably 200 engineers and scientists working on interdependent tasks, and 10 years of accumulated knowledge. Requirement and knowledge management can only go so far, so networking becomes critical to find subject matter experts, or someone can point you to one when you need answers.
I think there is some threshold of work scale or interdependence where remote work breaks down. That is to say, any productivity benefits from remote work scale linearly and communication challenges scale exponentially. This of course assumes that there is some communication friction for remote relative to in person.