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If all you do is talk to your immediate co-workers you lose contact with rest of the business. The larger the business the worse this gets. I have been endles
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
If all you do is talk to your immediate co-workers you lose contact with rest of the business. The larger the business the worse this gets. I have been endlessly productive in lockdown, and for the first six months it did not matter that I was not picking up on gossip etc. Lately I am realising all the changesI missed (and others missed). It makes everything harder.
So IMO if CEOs want to keep the value of those sort of interactions, (ie have everyone in the office) do waaaaay more communication, more cross-org meet-ups and mixers, have people come into office on same day for lunches and social activities
The thing that "being in an offi e" facilitates is cross-pollination of ideas, just like a city does. And what facilitates that is not working but interacting
- al2o3cr 5y agoI was not picking up on gossip ... It makes everything harder. To me, this suggests a company that isn't communicating effectively - side-channels like gossip were filling in the gaps when folks were in-office, but now they aren't. Fixing _that_ problem may or may not be a matter of putting butts-in-seats again.
- kthejoker2 5y agoEh? I don't see that as a.problem at all - not all communication is top-down, ideas also start from the bottom, not all ideas or dialogue is scripted .. to expect there not to be a gossip / side-channel as an effective marketplace of ideas, that's a problem.