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This article is entitled "There's No Such Thing as Quality Time." It's oriented towards families, but it makes the case that there's no levels of time, just...
by deanebarker 6y ago
This article is entitled "There's No Such Thing as Quality Time."
It's oriented towards families, but it makes the case that there's no levels of time, just...time, we spend together. Things happen in the cracks between scheduled events that matter.
https://ryanholiday.net/quality-time/ https://ryanholiday.net/quality-time/
When you work remote, everything is scheduled, almost by definition. No conversations happen that are not task-directed. You lose something there.
- bg4 6y agoThis still happens, it just happens on Slack. Perhaps not the same but it's not gone.
- derision 6y ago> When you work remote, everything is scheduled, almost by definition This assumption is not true in my experience. When shifting our company to full time remote we did have an uptick in scheduled events but we still have plenty of things that are unscheduled, unless you consider "hey can I call you right now?" A scheduled event
- watwut 6y ago> When you work remote, everything is scheduled, almost by definition. No conversations happen that are not task-directed. You lose something there. This is not how it was for us. And other teams that were distributed even before covid also were not like this - portion of their calls were always idle chat.