Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
by The_Colonel on Friday February 09, 2024 @05:45AM
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That's of course true, but then there's a large group of (I assume) introverts with whom it's kinda difficult to get close with, but once you do, you can have a great relationship with them. It's an order of magnitude harder problem to break ice remotely with such people.
Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
by entropicdrifter on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:24PM
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Speaking as one of those introverts, it's actually much easier for me to get to know people over video calls than it is in person, at least if there's an actual task at hand.
In-person I tend to be a little more no-nonsense, whereas over video calls I'm sitting comfortably at home with a cat in my lap, already relaxed and much less uptight as an emotional starting point.
At a previous employment (a 100% WFH position) I had most of my colleagues in India, roughly 4 time zones away from my own so we almost never met in person, and we'd have personal chit chat sessions while working.
Then I've worked with people who weren't present even when you were sitting right next to them. They'd come into the office, say "morning", put on their noise cancelling head phones and be gone for the rest of the day (modern open space office life in a nut shell).