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> Is the company communication designed to be asynchronous? No. There will always be some boomer who refuses to use Slack messages and needs handholding on Zoo
by mc4ndr3 5y ago
> Is the company communication designed to be asynchronous?
No. There will always be some boomer who refuses to use Slack messages and needs handholding on Zoom video for the most minor discussions. Character traits include emotional manipulation, not invented here syndrome, poor time management.
They've been struggling to deploy a simple microservice for multiple financial quarters but will snap and call you slow when their code review process stalls.
It's not easy to teach the concept of decoupling as a problem solving strategy. They've suffered the yoke of enterprise programming for so long, that they feel naked without iron chafing at the neck.
- zeckalpha 5y agoIf you read further, they talk about the value of synchronous communication, too. The key to both is being intentional.
- hu3 5y agoFrom my experience, the word boomer is unwarranted here. I've see 18y olds calling their colleagues on Zoom multiple times per day without the slightest attempt to send a slack message. And I've seen 60y olds that defaulted to asynchronous written communication.
- nathanlied 5y agoI'll agree with you here; I've got plenty of anecdata of the "younger" people choosing synchronous methods (calls, meetings, one-on-ones, etc.) vs "older" people (perhaps with families or other time-taking things) prefer asynchronicity. I don't think it's necessarily an age thing, more of a work methodology thing. Same as how some people cannot work remotely at all and will be miserable and unproductive doing so, where others thrive on remote and can't see themselves at the office. We should control for all of that in companies, and try to match people of the same persuasion. It may lead to far less attrition.
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