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We had this problem, so we decided to make everyone be remote part time now. It forced us to rethink communication on a daily basis, and everyone is much more

by kemiller2002 9y ago

We had this problem, so we decided to make everyone be remote part time now. It forced us to rethink communication on a daily basis, and everyone is much more cognizant of leaving people out of the loop. http://structuredsight.com/2017/07/02/practice/ http://structuredsight.com/2017/07/02/practice/

trengrj 9y ago
Thanks your article is well written and showed me a different approach to management.
socialist_coder 9y ago
That is really cool. Forced remote part time. I like it! Is it still working well for you? How much remote work do employees usually do?
- kemiller2002 9y ago
  Quite a bit actually, and it works really well for us. It has honestly gotten to the point where I don't know when most of my staff is in the office. I just don't worry about it. The communication is so great between things like Slack, Skype, and even phone calls that being in the same office provides really no major benefit. (In truth we all like being in the office every once in a while, because it's nice to get the entire group together, but it's not necessary.) It really forced us to restructure how we worked for the better, and people love it too. When we have code reviews and people aren't in the office, we just do it using screen sharing, and everyone being out part of the time ensures all of our requirements for projects are online and available to everyone. One of our biggest benefits is surrounding the daily stand ups. We have them everyday, because we like to get together briefly to socialize a little bit and to make sure that there isn't anything that we really need to discuss, but really we know everything that is going on before the scrum. With this, people who are remote don't call in, and this saves us a ton of time and effort. Between finding a room with a phone and calling into a conference number, we realize that it's completely not worth it and it's not necessary.
nickthemagicman 9y ago
This is the best of all worlds imo. Work from office a day or two. You get the connection with coworkers but still get the remote benefits.

trengrj 9y ago

Thanks your article is well written and showed me a different approach to management.

socialist_coder 9y ago

That is really cool. Forced remote part time. I like it! Is it still working well for you? How much remote work do employees usually do?

kemiller2002 9y ago
Quite a bit actually, and it works really well for us. It has honestly gotten to the point where I don't know when most of my staff is in the office. I just don't worry about it. The communication is so great between things like Slack, Skype, and even phone calls that being in the same office provides really no major benefit. (In truth we all like being in the office every once in a while, because it's nice to get the entire group together, but it's not necessary.) It really forced us to restructure how we worked for the better, and people love it too. When we have code reviews and people aren't in the office, we just do it using screen sharing, and everyone being out part of the time ensures all of our requirements for projects are online and available to everyone. One of our biggest benefits is surrounding the daily stand ups. We have them everyday, because we like to get together briefly to socialize a little bit and to make sure that there isn't anything that we really need to discuss, but really we know everything that is going on before the scrum. With this, people who are remote don't call in, and this saves us a ton of time and effort. Between finding a room with a phone and calling into a conference number, we realize that it's completely not worth it and it's not necessary.

nickthemagicman 9y ago

This is the best of all worlds imo. Work from office a day or two. You get the connection with coworkers but still get the remote benefits.