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Communication for a team distributed across NYC and Chicago is not really any different than a team that's NYC, Chicago and remote people here and there. Multi
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
Communication for a team distributed across NYC and Chicago is not really any different than a team that's NYC, Chicago and remote people here and there. Multiple locations is a problem companies in basically every other industry manage to solve as they grow and yet tech can't figure it out because we think we're different.
- ghaff 7y agoProbably because of the readership, a lot of the discussions tend to assume small companies and teams. As you say, while companies take different approaches, most large companies (or even medium large companies) has offices all over the world, teams that have grown and morphed through acquisition and reorganization, etc. I have a couple different offices I could go into--daily if I wanted to--but most of the people I interact with are elsewhere and many of the people I do work with in those offices spend most of their time traveling and in meetings. The situation may be different for small development teams of focused projects, but I'd be working across timezones every day whether I was in an office or not.