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Ask HN: Are you redesigning your job to be asynchronous and remote?
Or rather, can you?
With Omicron, it seems onbvious to me we will be on a treadmill of SARS like viruses that get more capable of spreading, while less (I hope) deadly. We will watch evolution in action, but have to shutdown more or less to prevent waves of people hitting hospitals all at once.
So basically COVID is here for years to come.
And we (yes, privileged knowledge workers with nice jobs) have to adjust.
For about the first six months I still had good relationships with all the people I used to meet every day in physical real life. And I felt comfortable reaching out and asking things on their expertise and what they were working on. But as time goes on they move, what they are doing changes and I don't get to keep up. Two years later and I have great relationships with those I work directly with but barely understand what anyone else is doing.
Fixing this should be a top priority of every company- but in the meantime what are we individually doing?
Any ideas?