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That is a big win for existing knowledge and process. How about creating new knowledge and process?

rorykoehler 6y ago
Doesn’t that happen naturally as circumstances change and therefore needs too? I’ve never had an issue with this. In fact I’ve helped transform my company from my home. It’s barely recognisable to the company I joined (in a good way). People are happy and employee churn is way down, we’re still shipping new features, sometimes even with new technologies, sales are up, revenues are up even breaking records during the pandemic, stock price is up etc etc If creating new knowledge and processes is important to you you just have to invest time and money into it. I’m not sure what worker proximity has to do with this? To clarify (a simplified version of) my management approach is to find the current organisational bottleneck and remove it ad nauseam. This can drive immense amounts of new knowledge and processes creation.
- blacktriangle 6y ago
  That sounds like you've had an awesome experience and if you're into blogging I think it's a topic many people would be interested to hear about. I do think you write off the value of worker proximity too quickly though. Particularly many other comments in this thread are talking about the real struggles junior devs and interns are facing getting up to speed without in-person mentorship. Those are the long-term impacts I'm worried about. By moving to full WFH has an organization just broken their hiring pipeline and thus is now doomed to fail as people retire and they can't grow?
  - rorykoehler 6y ago
    I don’t discount your perspective at all and it’s true that it could become the most pressing organisational bottleneck at which point I would focus all my efforts on solving it. Cloud IDEs and pair programming come to mind as a potential solution.
npsimons 6y ago
> How about creating new knowledge and process? Judging from how academics across the world, and even across decades if not centuries create new knowledge all the time, I'd say it's not a barrier to work remotely, whether that's in time or space.

Doesn’t that happen naturally as circumstances change and therefore needs too? I’ve never had an issue with this. In fact I’ve helped transform my company from my home. It’s barely recognisable to the company I joined (in a good way). People are happy and employee churn is way down, we’re still shipping new features, sometimes even with new technologies, sales are up, revenues are up even breaking records during the pandemic, stock price is up etc etc If creating new knowledge and processes is important to you you just have to invest time and money into it. I’m not sure what worker proximity has to do with this? To clarify (a simplified version of) my management approach is to find the current organisational bottleneck and remove it ad nauseam. This can drive immense amounts of new knowledge and processes creation.

blacktriangle 6y ago
That sounds like you've had an awesome experience and if you're into blogging I think it's a topic many people would be interested to hear about. I do think you write off the value of worker proximity too quickly though. Particularly many other comments in this thread are talking about the real struggles junior devs and interns are facing getting up to speed without in-person mentorship. Those are the long-term impacts I'm worried about. By moving to full WFH has an organization just broken their hiring pipeline and thus is now doomed to fail as people retire and they can't grow?
- rorykoehler 6y ago
  I don’t discount your perspective at all and it’s true that it could become the most pressing organisational bottleneck at which point I would focus all my efforts on solving it. Cloud IDEs and pair programming come to mind as a potential solution.

npsimons 6y ago

> How about creating new knowledge and process? Judging from how academics across the world, and even across decades if not centuries create new knowledge all the time, I'd say it's not a barrier to work remotely, whether that's in time or space.