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A close friend of mine has a coworker who calls them whenever they are not in meetings (shows up as online in whatever chat thingy their organization uses.) and
by itronitron 6y ago
A close friend of mine has a coworker who calls them whenever they are not in meetings (shows up as online in whatever chat thingy their organization uses.) and wastes at least two hours of their time everyday.
Are there strategies that fully remote companies take to limit that type of time wasting?
- j4yav 6y agoGenerally, remote companies prefer async work. GitLab has a great guide on how to get started, and I'm also building an app (https://asyncgo.com https://asyncgo.com). Other founders are building different tools with different approaches but the same goal in mind as well. Basically you want to move as much focused work as you can to async collaboration and save realtime for more freeform, relaxed communication. It's more efficient and also less draining to work that way.
- mbrodersen 6y agoThe strategy is to not reply to anything they write.