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While lot of people are thinking about how the self driving cars will effect commute specially to work. We really don't know how the workplace is going to chang
by __Joker 11y ago
While lot of people are thinking about how the self driving cars will effect commute specially to work. We really don't know how the workplace is going to change. I think the conventional workplace is ripe for change. Will there will be more need to commute to work as opposed to more remote working with say virtual workplace with better virtual reality. Obviously some of the jobs can't be done unless you are physically present, but I am would like to think these jobs will get lesser and lesser. If I have to go to workplace lesser, I as well might leave far off from workplace. Also with self-driving cars will be lot as stressful as driving. I would assume self-driving cars will give us the chance to work farther from workplace. And less dependent on near to prime location.
- legulere 11y agoProgrammers are the prime example for a job that can be done remotely, and yet there are tons of articles about the problems it causes. The problem of staying in contact with your workplace hardly can be solved with virtual reality.
- bolchevich 11y agoRemote work can only function if the teams have both the communications tooling to support it and the team and organisational culture aspects to keep it up. I find most fail at the latter, because they don't know how to be sufficient enough in communication with the tools they have. Talking to face the face has much more communication bandwidth than anything else out there.
- collyw 11y agoPersonally I would have expected to see a 4 or 5 times imporvement n productivity from not being in an office where I was interupted maybe once an hour on average. Saying that a more competent manager could have probably elimiated a lot of that (instead he caused way more interuptions).
- deelowe 11y agoStudy after study says otherwise. For various reasons, small teams working in a huddle together for short sprints is the most effective way to organize a development team.
- collyw 11y agoI was a team of one constantly getting pestered by end users who were to stupid to fill out an excel sheet properly. Or incompetent managers who were completely unorganized.
- VLM 11y agoAt startup size its considered unsolved. At multinational megacorp level its considered a solved problem, often enough your boss and some coworkers aren't even on the same continent. One interesting social effect of self driving cars is I only see my bosses boss about every three months because he lives and works several hundred miles away, and I have coworkers I've never met in person. (note, not a remote job, just a typical "dozens of billions of dollars" non-tech mega corporation). Self driving cars mean I'd probably be stuck sitting in a car while working for an entire day to meet people face to face. For people who still believe in mystical laying on of hands, self driving cars would likely explode the amount of it that goes on, as I've found it weirdly true that famous projects are international, but its fractally similar in that you're also more likely to have a boss thats 30 miles away, or a bosses boss 800 miles away, not the proverbial instantaneous jump from the entire company in one skyscraper to fully distributed. Yes, a self driving car would be useless if my boss was in China, but things haven't spread out geographically that fast.
- rnet85 11y agoLife like virtual office with occulus rift