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I came out of retirement last fall for a while to work at an AI startup. One of the really nice things about the all-remote setup was randomly assigned long vir
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
I came out of retirement last fall for a while to work at an AI startup. One of the really nice things about the all-remote setup was randomly assigned long virtual coffee breaks every week. Given that I had a lot of samples (N ~= 50) of co-workers opinions on remote vs. in office work, I feel comfortable making a generalization: young single people mostly wanted to go back to the office while people in relationships and kids at home (especially young children) really liked the flexibility and extra family time that remote work affords.
- eplanit 5y ago"randomly assigned long virtual coffee breaks every week" Really? As in you and someone else are each assigned a meeting with each other on Zoom (or whatever) at a given time? Would your co-workers not socialize, otherwise? It sounds like it was a positive experience for you, which is great.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoThe number of people on the Zoom virtual coffees were nominally 5 people, but in practice, 2 to 4 people were able to attend on average. Yes, I did enjoy this a lot. Off topic, but when I retired (again) after this gig, I re-started offering my free mentoring service (1 hour talk on the phone or Zoom, some people just want to exchange emails) again, and have enjoyed helping people.
- jdhn 5y ago>young single people mostly wanted to go back to the office I realize that this is an anecdote, but as a young(ish) single person, this doesn't match up with my experience at all. Half our team is out of state, and I've never heard anybody express a desire to come in state to work at the office.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI understand. In my case most employees were in Columbus Ohio, and they had nice offices and facilities.