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Re:Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote wor... by aaronvg on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:42PM (#33264707)
It's easier to be creative when you can bounce-off an idea with a coworker immediately, rather than wait for the Zoom meeting or wait for them to answer your Slack message.

We're actually building a virtual office to make having these quick chats easier (gloo.chat). If you would want to try it out, or even just provide some feedback, that would be amazing given we just got started. Totally shameless plug.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote wor... by lolinder on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:45PM (#33264748)
For me, it's easiest to be creative when I can enter a flow state, and that's best achieved by muting Slack notifications and blocking out all external stimulus. Coworkers bouncing ideas off me "immediately" whenever they see fit is a recipe for decreasing my productivity.
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Re:Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote wor... by aaronvg on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:54PM (#33264856)
Yep we encourage people to turn off our app (Gloo) a few days a week similarly to having "no meeting days". In the end, people can always decide how often they want to be reachable for.
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