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Speaking only for myself, most of my friends (from after university) are people I have worked with. And these are the people I usually get a coffee with, brains

Speaking only for myself, most of my friends (from after university) are people I have worked with. And these are the people I usually get a coffee with, brainstorm ideas on whiteboards, go out for drinks or talk tech with them. WFH permanently would definitely impact this. Even though I might get along great with another dev from 100+ miles away, I cannot possibly do most of the things I mentioned above with them. Edit: Friends also include people working in other teams like project managers, marketing, HR, support teams etc.

LockAndLol 6y ago
Definitely not with that attitude. I've seen people organize virtual parties with video conferencing software, have personally played games with my team members while having drinks, had brain storming sessions with digital whiteboards or a shared screen, and talked tech with friends for hours in one-on-ones. If you go in with the mentality of "this won't work", well mate, then it won't.
- imheretolearn 6y ago
  He said it better than I could: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtk6DtkJhrA&t=4m23s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtk6DtkJhrA&t=4m23s
neurostimulant 6y ago
My experience working remote for 10 years is the opposite of yours. I found that email is a really great communication tool for work. People tend to talk a lot and unfocused during face to face meeting, but when forced to use email only, they’ll spend more time to write down their thoughts to make sure the other people can understand their points without wasting their time. Email is asynchronous so you don’t need to drag people out of their routine just to discuss stuff that can be done over emails. Meeting is reserved only for absolutely important stuff that can’t be done over email, which is surprisingly rare. Linux kernel development is an example of this, a global collaboration essentially done over emails. We got magnificent tools like git because of the need to streamline this kind of remote works.

LockAndLol 6y ago

Definitely not with that attitude. I've seen people organize virtual parties with video conferencing software, have personally played games with my team members while having drinks, had brain storming sessions with digital whiteboards or a shared screen, and talked tech with friends for hours in one-on-ones. If you go in with the mentality of "this won't work", well mate, then it won't.

imheretolearn 6y ago
He said it better than I could: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtk6DtkJhrA&t=4m23s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtk6DtkJhrA&t=4m23s

neurostimulant 6y ago

My experience working remote for 10 years is the opposite of yours. I found that email is a really great communication tool for work. People tend to talk a lot and unfocused during face to face meeting, but when forced to use email only, they’ll spend more time to write down their thoughts to make sure the other people can understand their points without wasting their time. Email is asynchronous so you don’t need to drag people out of their routine just to discuss stuff that can be done over emails. Meeting is reserved only for absolutely important stuff that can’t be done over email, which is surprisingly rare. Linux kernel development is an example of this, a global collaboration essentially done over emails. We got magnificent tools like git because of the need to streamline this kind of remote works.