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If the tech giants are truly ready to embrace permanent wfh for a large % of their employees I think we could see a land rush of innovation around wfh collabora

by nugget 6y ago

If the tech giants are truly ready to embrace permanent wfh for a large % of their employees I think we could see a land rush of innovation around wfh collaboration tools on the horizon, including some AR/VR applications. That is what I'm most excited about.

karatestomp 6y ago
I suspect the main thing we'll get, tech-wise, if WFH expands substantially, is more and more normalized spying.
- jrs235 6y ago
  *"productivity tracking"
  - airstrike 6y ago
    *Coding APM
- blondin 6y ago
  not just that. remember what they say about work home balance or separation? it's only going to get worse for here. we are already having people's kids and family on conference calls...
- rodiger 6y ago
  Comments like these continually make me happy that my place of work does no such monitoring and trusts employees to be productive.
brianmcc 6y ago
Hadn't thought about this before - but you're spot on, some serious investment in innovating in this area could massively improve the whole remote working experience. Here's hoping!
LatteLazy 6y ago
Don't we have everything already? We have email, audio and video calls, chat including groups and file transfer. Wfh doesn't have an unsolved problem to innovate over does it? It's human behaviour and communication skills that are lacking, not the tech imo...
- rodiger 6y ago
  Probably more QoL improvements than drastic change. Getting the tech out of the way to optimize actually using it.
ThalesX 6y ago
Someone shared with me an article [0] that some company is doing some of their meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2, around a campfire. While I don't believe it to be more than hype right now, it fired up my imagination. I think it has a nice ring to it, staying under the starry night, putting some meat on the fire, talking to the people in my team. Then I got to thinking 5 - 10 years in the future when maybe VR Tech is going to be cheaper and more ergonomic, with Unreal 5 [1] coming up and who knows what the engines a decade from now will look like, how awesome would it be to work from home and have the daily meeting in some amazing virtual space. No point to my post really, only that work conditions are hopefully going to be more playful in the future. [0] https://mashable.com/article/red-dead-redemption-2-coronavirus-meeting-work-from-home-social-distancing/ https://mashable.com/article/red-dead-redemption-2-coronavir... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5KtatMcUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5KtatMcUw
- maerF0x0 6y ago
  Similar concept. I had a business professor in university who, for an assignment, made us take one of our classes through secondlife https://secondlife.com/ https://secondlife.com/ Was a very eye opening experience for many students.
  - ThalesX 6y ago
    Wow, had no idea that thing is still around. I remember giving it a spin more than fifteen years ago. :)
  - c17r 6y ago
    Something design specifically for the work environment: https://www.sococo.com/ https://www.sococo.com/
- fzzzy 6y ago
  I hang out with one friend in GTA 5. I make a private server for our clan, and we just drive around and talk.
maxerickson 6y ago
My work from home has been screen share and audio, not video. I'm really glad there isn't video. I don't know what I would get out of VR vs screen sharing.

by nugget 6y ago

karatestomp 6y ago

I suspect the main thing we'll get, tech-wise, if WFH expands substantially, is more and more normalized spying.

jrs235 6y ago
*"productivity tracking"
- airstrike 6y ago
  *Coding APM
blondin 6y ago
not just that. remember what they say about work home balance or separation? it's only going to get worse for here. we are already having people's kids and family on conference calls...
rodiger 6y ago
Comments like these continually make me happy that my place of work does no such monitoring and trusts employees to be productive.

brianmcc 6y ago

Hadn't thought about this before - but you're spot on, some serious investment in innovating in this area could massively improve the whole remote working experience. Here's hoping!

LatteLazy 6y ago

Don't we have everything already? We have email, audio and video calls, chat including groups and file transfer. Wfh doesn't have an unsolved problem to innovate over does it? It's human behaviour and communication skills that are lacking, not the tech imo...

rodiger 6y ago
Probably more QoL improvements than drastic change. Getting the tech out of the way to optimize actually using it.

ThalesX 6y ago

Someone shared with me an article [0] that some company is doing some of their meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2, around a campfire. While I don't believe it to be more than hype right now, it fired up my imagination. I think it has a nice ring to it, staying under the starry night, putting some meat on the fire, talking to the people in my team. Then I got to thinking 5 - 10 years in the future when maybe VR Tech is going to be cheaper and more ergonomic, with Unreal 5 [1] coming up and who knows what the engines a decade from now will look like, how awesome would it be to work from home and have the daily meeting in some amazing virtual space. No point to my post really, only that work conditions are hopefully going to be more playful in the future. [0] https://mashable.com/article/red-dead-redemption-2-coronavirus-meeting-work-from-home-social-distancing/ https://mashable.com/article/red-dead-redemption-2-coronavir... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5KtatMcUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5KtatMcUw

maerF0x0 6y ago
Similar concept. I had a business professor in university who, for an assignment, made us take one of our classes through secondlife https://secondlife.com/ https://secondlife.com/ Was a very eye opening experience for many students.
- ThalesX 6y ago
  Wow, had no idea that thing is still around. I remember giving it a spin more than fifteen years ago. :)
- c17r 6y ago
  Something design specifically for the work environment: https://www.sococo.com/ https://www.sococo.com/
fzzzy 6y ago
I hang out with one friend in GTA 5. I make a private server for our clan, and we just drive around and talk.

maxerickson 6y ago

My work from home has been screen share and audio, not video. I'm really glad there isn't video. I don't know what I would get out of VR vs screen sharing.