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My company has a process where it puts every stakeholder on a particular topic off-site for a day. (often in an hotel room actually). This is to accelerate the

by seren 11y ago

My company has a process where it puts every stakeholder on a particular topic off-site for a day. (often in an hotel room actually). This is to accelerate the decision process, with a clear deliverable. Even if it works, I find that awkward : it acknowledges that you can not get the job done at work, because of the endless stream of meetings and interruptions. It really begs the question if the way we traditionally work with everyone in the same office is really that efficient. But I am sure remote workers and distributed work environment have their own share of issues.

riskneural 11y ago
Who doesn't try to find places to hide from the endless stream of calls, meetings, and emails? In fact, once I check off the next four hours of meetings and client calls, I think I will go hide in the awesome Stadtbibliothek (the library).
- shoo 11y ago
  this reminds me of a couple of war stories by rachelbythebay: Opening umbrellas indoors on purpose [1], and Project Darkness [2] [1] - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/18/umbrellagate/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/18/umbrellagate/ [2] - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/08/24/projectdarkness/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/08/24/projectdarkness/
vidarh 11y ago
> Even if it works, I find that awkward : it acknowledges that you can not get the job done at work, because of the endless stream of meetings and interruptions. It may just acknowledge that in your normal day to day job people have competing priorities that makes spending all your time on a single, specific project hard to achieve, especially when you're the easiest person to go to for others to solve their problems. > It really begs the question if the way we traditionally work with everyone in the same office is really that efficient. Or they're not efficient for the same things. It's not a given it makes sense to work the same way all the time.

by seren 11y ago

riskneural 11y ago

Who doesn't try to find places to hide from the endless stream of calls, meetings, and emails? In fact, once I check off the next four hours of meetings and client calls, I think I will go hide in the awesome Stadtbibliothek (the library).

shoo 11y ago
this reminds me of a couple of war stories by rachelbythebay: Opening umbrellas indoors on purpose [1], and Project Darkness [2] [1] - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/18/umbrellagate/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/18/umbrellagate/ [2] - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/08/24/projectdarkness/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/08/24/projectdarkness/

vidarh 11y ago

> Even if it works, I find that awkward : it acknowledges that you can not get the job done at work, because of the endless stream of meetings and interruptions. It may just acknowledge that in your normal day to day job people have competing priorities that makes spending all your time on a single, specific project hard to achieve, especially when you're the easiest person to go to for others to solve their problems. > It really begs the question if the way we traditionally work with everyone in the same office is really that efficient. Or they're not efficient for the same things. It's not a given it makes sense to work the same way all the time.