Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Worse Than We Thought

Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by jabbany on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:06AM (#36502878)

Time zones still matter though. I have been in same-time-zone remote teams and different-time-zone ones. The dynamic is very different.

Things that take minutes or hours when everyone is on roughly the same schedule, could easily drag on to a multiple day delay in a remote team that crosses many timezones.

As for fully outsourced teams... They always could have done that even before remote work. Other factors seem to affect why that doesn't work.

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Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by mrtksn on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:27AM (#36503049)

Right, the time zone differences are a hard one. In some places people work in the hours of the client when doing remote work but it's still hard and taxing.

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Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by theshrike79 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:12AM (#36503348)

We've all been there:

  Them: Hello, <name>

  8-16 hours pass

  Me: Hello, did you need something?

  8-16 hours pass

  Them: How are you?

  8- 16 hours pass

.....

https://www.nohello.com

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Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by nottorp on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:41AM (#36504290)

Exactly. When you do async comms and have a question, skip the chit chat and just send the question and an appropriate infodump.

As a matter of fact, even when you chit chat do it in self contained units. You don't know how much time passes till your co workers read your joke in #general.

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