No more remote work at Yahoo

Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by nikon on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:18AM (#5279050)

Working from home is boring. I spent 1 1/2 years working from home but now much prefer working in my client's office with the team. It seems no one else is either willing to admit this, or I am the only one who prefers the social interactions and the ability to resolve and issue face-to-face in 2 minutes rather than struggling on Skype, or waiting for emails.

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Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by alan_cx on Monday February 25, 2013 @11:03AM (#5279572)

Boring for you, not me.

What I find boring is being told about how drunk some lad got at the week end, or some one's latest recipe, or how a hubby is a git, or how the immigrants are taking all the jobs or how benefits claimants are scroungers or how blah, blah, blah............ all of with puts me off working in an office, well, working at all. And even if I politely make it clear I'm not interested, the drone of social BS continues in the back ground.

Others thrive on that, but in my experience, spend a lot of time gossiping and not working. Meanwhile, I'm at home working twice as hard because I'm worried other will think I'm being lazy and watching TV or some such. But that is just my experience.

Truth is it all depends on culture, personality, role and circumstance.

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Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by gcp on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:47AM (#5279161)

the ability to resolve and issue face-to-face in 2 minutes rather than struggling on Skype, or waiting for emails.

If you're not coordinating your remote workers on an IRC-like system, you're likely doing it wrong. (That's my experience, if someone else has successfully used other systems I'd like to hear about it)

Also, if most of the team is on site and the remote people are a small minority, things are going to suck, unless management is also off-site.

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Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by codeordie on Monday February 25, 2013 @11:20AM (#5279662)

I think you are spot on - I've done a lot of working from home, but it's by far the most satisfying when there's a chat room (or IRC) system setup. It makes it fun, I feel more connected, and I think we are more productive that way.

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Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by ebbv on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:27AM (#5279074)

There's advantages and disadvantages to both but I think you're in a minority if you overall prefer working in an office all the time.

Personally I like working from home as the default and meeting in person when needed/appropriate.

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Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by jebblue on Monday February 25, 2013 @10:10AM (#5279262)

Your priority isn't everyone else's priority. The luxury you exercise in walking over and disturbing someone to enlist them to help you fix your problem comes at a price of latency to them in how long it takes them to get back on task after you walk away happy that you got your problem fixed and that you had a social interaction.

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Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by leddt on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:25AM (#5279064)

I worked a year from home and came to similar conclusions. It was fun for the first month or so, but after that I was missing the face-to-face conversations, the happy hours and the general "buzz" of an office.

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Re:No more remote work at Yahoo by gcp on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:50AM (#5279172)

As someone working remote, it's telling to me that the fun part of working in an office are all things that are...not actually working :)

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