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Regarding corporations working remotely, you are correct, but only considering one definition of "remotely". In the context of this article, working "remotely"
by koliber 10y ago
Regarding corporations working remotely, you are correct, but only considering one definition of "remotely".
In the context of this article, working "remotely" means that an individual is working remotely from all other individuals in an organization. This is different from one team working remotely from other teams.
I am a huge proponent of individual remote work. Having done it for many years and experiencing it from both sides, I can confidently say that the challenges involved are different from a corporate office that is physically separate from other offices.
- VLM 10y agoAt "megacorp" every other team I work with is remote to me. You do correctly make the point that I personally spend more time working with numerous other teams than with my own team, and that ratio likely varies a lot. There are likely jobs where members never talk to anyone outside their local team. That must be pretty boring, but it almost certainly exists. No one seems concerned that virtually all my working interactions are with "far away teams". Probably because it works very well and comes from top down directives not bottom up.