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> The solution that should make everyone happy, of course, is to just make everything remote. Except there exist a set of people who enjoy the camaraderie of t
by james_s_tayler 8y ago
> The solution that should make everyone happy, of course, is to just make everything remote.
Except there exist a set of people who enjoy the camaraderie of talking shit with their colleagues in the office while they go about their worker bee lives.
You will inevitably make those people unhappy with that move and then they will come here on HN and categorically declare how terrible working remote is (for them, but they will omit that detail).
- matwood 8y ago> Except there exist a set of people who enjoy the camaraderie of talking shit with their colleagues in the office while they go about their worker bee lives. We are working through this right now. Our current office lease is up and the new space is not done yet. We let people also be fully remote, so we decided to go fully remote until the other space is completed. Quite a few people are very unhappy about even this short couple months of being forced remote.
- ghaff 8y agoI'm pretty much fully remote these days. But looking back to the long-term job in the computer industry I first had after school, I would not have liked or probably particularly flourished in being stuck in my apartment all day. (To be sure, I'd probably have moved into the city and found different patterns but it's still a bit hard for me to imagine.) I'd also note that I've known lots of people who basically had jobs that didn't require a lot of in-person interactions but still preferred to come into the office. Of course, that can be largely solved by paying for rental office space for them.