Re:Work for a remote culture
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:23PM
(#9892214)
All of that is obsolete thinking. Good headset-and-webcam collaboration tools make it actually easier to ask for help, than 'over the cubicle wall'. Because now everyone in the company is your digital neighbor.
We are all remote at my company. We've had to train managers to stay in their damn offices and put on the headset, instead of walking around or gathering people in conference rooms. Because being away from the collaboration tool is the biggest source of isolation and communication trouble we have.
If everybody is jacked in, can see everybody else in their space, knows who is talking to whom at a glance, and can talk/webcam/share with a mouse click, why then we get so much more done. More than being physically present, which really means being close to 1 or two people but physically isolated from everybody else in the building.
We are all remote at my company. We've had to train managers to stay in their damn offices and put on the headset, instead of walking around or gathering people in conference rooms. Because being away from the collaboration tool is the biggest source of isolation and communication trouble we have.
If everybody is jacked in, can see everybody else in their space, knows who is talking to whom at a glance, and can talk/webcam/share with a mouse click, why then we get so much more done. More than being physically present, which really means being close to 1 or two people but physically isolated from everybody else in the building.