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For a well-organized team with top of the line collab tools? Perhaps, if everyone is comfortable with working from home, but I'm still skeptical. Finding myself
by flatline 6y ago
For a well-organized team with top of the line collab tools? Perhaps, if everyone is comfortable with working from home, but I'm still skeptical. Finding myself in a management position, coordinating the efforts of a medium-size development team across two organizations has become an order of magnitude more challenging. I cover a lot of meetings that the developers don't have to, but sometimes we still need to sit two to five people in a room to hash out the details of some technical problem. I have not seen an adequate substitute for that process. I believe that the people who worked from home full time prior to this (and I've been one of those before) are leveraging the time others spend in face to face interactions to their indirect advantage. When no high-level planning or in-depth low-level in person conversations can happen, many organizations are simply going to move much more slowly and make more mistakes.