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> being able to stop by someone's desk and shoot the shit or see what they're working on So long as the other person feels the same way. One of the reasons I e
by cube00 5y ago
> being able to stop by someone's desk and shoot the shit or see what they're working on
So long as the other person feels the same way. One of the reasons I enjoy working from home is people can no longer wonder by and shatter my concentration because they're on a break. They can ping me in chat and I'll get to it in my break.
- hansel_der 5y agosure, obnoxious coworkers suck, but the 'oh noes, my concentration/flow' argument has been done to death imo. thanks to hybrid work, ppl can hide at home all they want. ps: pls also consider parents that get interrupted far more frequently when working from home.
- raducu 5y ago> sure, obnoxious coworkers suck, but the 'oh noes, my concentration/flow' argument has been done to death imo. But why do such people say such silly things if it's not true? Do I think it's 100% true? No, but it feels that way for them. I f*king hate useless meetings where my time is wasted. I had a coleague express the same thing about a topic. Business replied "well, we only had 4 meetings and at least 2 were really required so it was not excessive". So who was right? Everybody was right, business did not feel it was excessivez the developers felt it was excessive. WFH works, 2 years of pandemic proved it does. Some people like it and some people don't, it's not about arguments but about preferences.
- Melchizedek 5y agoBut it just so happens that one preference is highly correlated with doing useful work, and the other to chatting, butt-in-seat mentality, and having others do your job (asking for "help").