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This conversation, when I've had it with people, usually ends up with the same conclusions: people would like to see their coworkers face-to-face like.... a cou
by rtpg 5y ago
This conversation, when I've had it with people, usually ends up with the same conclusions: people would like to see their coworkers face-to-face like.... a couple times a month. People have deep relationships with others without needing to see them 5 times a day, after all!
I think the difficulties around relationship building in this time are deeply linked to whether you are able to socialize "through a computer" well or not. I'm not really talking about Zoom etc so much as just text chat or the like. There are definitely people more and less comfortable at it.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoIt is an interesting question. I have two new team members we added 2 months ago. Neither is very technical and, admittedly, it can get challenging sometimes, because pre-WFH, I could have just showed them what to do instead of spending 20 minutes trying to explain what I want them to do. I could technically grab a screen, but.. apparently, neither learns well that way and just yesterday I had some really odd issues with sound and MS Teams screen sharing. Anyway, as much as I love remote, in person has its benefits.. like being able to strangle someone when needed.
- raywu 5y agoUnrelated: how do you remember your username?
- AndrewDucker 5y agoMy guess would be that that's a phrase.
- warkdarrior 5y agoThat's the sound his co-workers make when he strangles them!
- square_usual 5y agoNot OP, but as someone who's used such handles in the past, using a password manager.
- kmlx 5y agoor you never log out
- Gh0stRAT 5y agoI'm not OP but it almost looks like they got the username and password fields mixed-up when they were creating their account. For all we know, their password might be something like "remote_worker"!
- olau 5y agoVideoconferencing tooling is still awful. Bad latency, pixelated screensharing, frequent issues with sound and video. On top of that hardware problems with bad microphone setups, cross talk, etc. I hope that at some point someone is going to show up and take this seriously. Treat it like a medical service, or a least close to. But I'm not holding my breath. I believe it was least year that I read that John Carmack had measured the latency of his cell phone and found it to in the vicinity of 700 ms.
- unsui 5y agoI've found the opposite. As a developer, WFH actually facilitates things like pair programming and peer review. Especially for introverts like myself, it is much easier to do a screenshare of your IDE and review code in a group than try to sit next to each other or review code on a big screen in a meeting room. This has become a thing for us now (let's jump on a zoom and i'll show you quickly), for anything that's too complex to slack. The ability to easily screen share and record sessions as needed means I can get the big picture in the initial live session and review the details later via recording as needed (especially those nitpicky code details nobody remembers the first time around). I will miss this when we have to go back to the office.
- gxs 5y agoHm I hadn’t thought about this in that way - this is very true - we maintain a lot of close relationships with people we don’t spend nearly 40 hours a week with. And fwiw, I think I fall within this line of thinking - for me going to the office would be productive if it were at its absolute most once per week.