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Love working remotely. Day to day comradery and communication is hard to replicate in the digital world though at least for me. Example: I walked by my reports
by roamerz 5y ago
Love working remotely. Day to day comradery and communication is hard to replicate in the digital world though at least for me. Example: I walked by my reports office grumbling about a new network rebuild and the current state of our docs and he mentioned as I was passing how about Netbox. Well guess what I’d probably still be grumbling today except I’m knee deep in getting Netbox implemented. Going to make life a lot simpler for the next Sysadmin. That likely would not have happened if we were a remote team.
- dcolkitt 5y agoThe problem is it’s not sustainable to build an org around grumbling. If problems are only getting discovered in serendipitous hallway encounters, then that means a lot of problems aren’t getting discovered at all. Remote first may be painful in the short term. But in the long term it’s much healthier as it forces the org to rationalize structured lines of communication.
- roamerz 5y agoThat is just one form of communication that you cannot easily replicate in a remote work force and another is social interaction. I have found that it is the glue that holds organizations together and helps keep teams producing quality work. With remote first I can see teams becoming individuals and thought processes becoming siloed. Through the pandemic I’ve seen our department pre covid, then during the pandemic we went mostly remote first then now as we are all back in the office with remote allowed on a less frequent basis. Both moral and productivity have improved since our return. It fun to work again and that also means it will be more than “just a job” as remote work can become.