Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore

Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by sneak on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:29AM (#36239242)

> I don't understand, you can still clarify assumptions via chat, or grab someone when they're available for a quick voice chat if writing a wall of text will be unbearable or inefficient. That's communication 101

Most people are super duper slow typers.

Remote is less efficient unless most/all of your staff can touch type at a high rate of speed.

I don't hire people who can't type, but most people never learned.

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by someweirdperson on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:58AM (#36241985)

> I don't hire people who can't type, but most people never learned.

Do you require formal touch typing explicitly, or a certain minimum wpm (how fast?), or both? Do you include iportant charcters (for coding) in the test?

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by sneak on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:17PM (#36248259)

typing speed for coding is irrelevant. the bottleneck with coding is not data entry.

the important thing is that they can type at a high rate of speed. i personally type at around 120wpm which is excessive, but anyone who doesn't type 40-50wpm is obviously not sufficiently skilled as a remote worker.

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by novok on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:45AM (#36254198)

IMO if speed is really an issue then whisper can take care of that. It's pretty good and fast.

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by sneak on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:49AM (#36254664)

So far, we have not seen that. People opt for meetings where they can speak versus using tools to become better at communicating via text.

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