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Interestingly enough, I find were having more of these conversations working remotely than we did in the office. I think part of it is that using MS Teams othe
by dragonsky 6y ago
Interestingly enough, I find were having more of these conversations working remotely than we did in the office. I think part of it is that using MS Teams other people are a lot more accessible, just drop into the chat and leave a message. If they are busy no probs, if they aren't then they will reply and we talk about whatever. Sick of typing, drop into a voice or video chat. Want to talk work, then it's easy to share a screen. A lot easier than looking at a screen over somebodies shoulder.
Whilst I do miss going out for a coffee or some such, I'm finding that I'm actually enjoying the social side of working remotely a lot more than the forced socialisation that was occurring physically in the office.
- johnnyzzj 6y agoInteresting point. Thx
- closeparen 6y agoI hope the “social side” of working remotely is kept to a minimum. Work socialization in the office led to some rich real-world friendships, but if the endgame of getting to know someone on a video call is just to have more video calls... gross. Remote meetings are such revolting experiences, it’s important that they be used as rarely as possible and with ironclad justification of business necessity for every second they drag on.
- kybernetikos 6y agoI don't really agree with this, but accepting it for the sake of argument, then it suggests to me that remote work needs to take up less time so that people have more time to make friends outside of work, since they're going to have fewer friends at work.