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In real life you communicate on a much higher level. Non verbal communication is so important. That's why I don't believe in pure working from home. At least ti

In real life you communicate on a much higher level. Non verbal communication is so important. That's why I don't believe in pure working from home. At least till we have full 16k VR work environment simulations.

kkfx 5y ago
Honestly I agree only very partially: in some context seeing others in a room, full body is indeed very useful, but that's not the case most of the time. Giving a remote lecture is painful because it's almost impossible to feel the class, discussing serious business is similar, but daily work, at least most of daily works do not really have, or can be designed not to, such needs. The real issue is being really able to separate work and life, or have a local social activity in person, in the physical world, while have a secondary and separated working life in a "virtual" world. This is hard IME, we tend to make friends where we are most active, then it's hard to separate remotes people from work to real physical and human world, for that I still have to find a real solution but meeting each others sometimes while keeping WFH for the rest again suffice in most cases. Having a local physical life separated from the work it's not that hard, at least if we do not live in a desert/very remote areas. The main issue I see in practice are mostly due to the lack of "social interest" in many remote workers who actually prefer to be remote just to avoid working with their colleagues, so they do not interact as needed, they do not try to communicate what's needed etc, the lack of habit and organization where most people simply start from scratch just like child doing their first experience "in the wild" without real experience, but those issues can be solved just with trials and errors in few years: for the system part we need to rediscover really remote work vs working on the shoulders of giants on their platforms, for the human part simply learning to develop a kind of "remote sociability" for work and a healthy local sociability where we physically live. "Remote sociability" is hard, but not that hard IF we learn it, of course we (society) have to really try to learn...

kkfx 5y ago

Honestly I agree only very partially: in some context seeing others in a room, full body is indeed very useful, but that's not the case most of the time. Giving a remote lecture is painful because it's almost impossible to feel the class, discussing serious business is similar, but daily work, at least most of daily works do not really have, or can be designed not to, such needs. The real issue is being really able to separate work and life, or have a local social activity in person, in the physical world, while have a secondary and separated working life in a "virtual" world. This is hard IME, we tend to make friends where we are most active, then it's hard to separate remotes people from work to real physical and human world, for that I still have to find a real solution but meeting each others sometimes while keeping WFH for the rest again suffice in most cases. Having a local physical life separated from the work it's not that hard, at least if we do not live in a desert/very remote areas. The main issue I see in practice are mostly due to the lack of "social interest" in many remote workers who actually prefer to be remote just to avoid working with their colleagues, so they do not interact as needed, they do not try to communicate what's needed etc, the lack of habit and organization where most people simply start from scratch just like child doing their first experience "in the wild" without real experience, but those issues can be solved just with trials and errors in few years: for the system part we need to rediscover really remote work vs working on the shoulders of giants on their platforms, for the human part simply learning to develop a kind of "remote sociability" for work and a healthy local sociability where we physically live. "Remote sociability" is hard, but not that hard IF we learn it, of course we (society) have to really try to learn...