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> The idea of taking the team out to an airbnb (or some other communal living arrangement) in the woods Oh god no, no, no, a million times NO. I'm a mostly in
by dheera 5y ago
> The idea of taking the team out to an airbnb (or some other communal living arrangement) in the woods
Oh god no, no, no, a million times NO.
I'm a mostly introverted person. I would MUCH rather go to the office 5 days a week for 8 hours each day than have to be stuck living with a group of coworkers for 2 weeks straight in a house in the woods.
After 8 hours of work the last thing I need is being forced to spend the rest of the 16 hours in the day with the same group of people.
If you're going to do a meet-up for a fully remote company, please do it in a location with several hotels and let every employee arrange their own accommodation reimbursed. Keep mandatory activities to no more than 6-8 hours a day, don't pressure people to spend their evenings and weekends drinking with the company. Outside of meeting hours, let people enjoy the place however they like -- adults are more than capable of figuring out recreational activities on their own, and you don't need to provide structure 24/7. If you pick Las Vegas I'm sure a whole bunch of employees will self-organize themselves and go gambling and drinking, but I have no interest in that stuff and you'll probably find me in some national park during the weekend.
- snakeboy 5y agoIn these discussions, where there is fierce opposition on this question, wouldn't it make sense to explicitly filter for this on hiring and have some companies that look for [for lack of a better word] extroverted people, and others for introverts? Sure if you work in an industry where you're competing among a very small pool of highly-skilled specialists, you can't afford to miss out on key talent. But if we're talking about web devs for a start-up, why not?
- dheera 5y agoI think it would be extremely counterproductive for a company to filter on extroverted people for most positions. Maybe it barely makes sense for a startup sales or PR to be extroverted because you kind of expect them to bring in connections from their (hopefully vast) personal network, but for the vast majority of positions I think you'd be looking at false signals and missing out on some extremely capable, focused people by blocking out introverts from your search. Introverts are VERY GOOD at getting shit done. Introverts aren't opposed to teamwork and collaboration, it just means that when we get off work, we usually chill alone or occasionally with 1-2 close friends, instead of partying.