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Re:Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) by dtech on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:06AM (#33571423)
Very little people are advocating that WFH doesn't work better for focus work of clear and specced tasks.

However, in my experience that is maybe 30-90% of software engineering, depending on environment, role and seniority. There are lots of relevant activities that are more challenging remotely, such as 1-on-1 mentoring, pairing for debugging or programming, or designing and collaborating a project or interface across-teams. Maybe you are "lucky" enough to never have to bother with that.

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Re:Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) by ProZsolt on Saturday November 12, 2022 @07:45AM (#33572523)
> 1-on-1 mentoring, pairing for debugging or programming

I find these quite easy or even better remote. I just fire up a screen share or even better a Visual Studio Live Share and both of us can see the same thing while we have our own developer environment.

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