3 ms·

I wonder if it is really so much down to just personality, or if training, process changes, and better tools could largely ameliorate the differences? I have a

I wonder if it is really so much down to just personality, or if training, process changes, and better tools could largely ameliorate the differences? I have a hunch that as more work shifts remote, new ways of working will evolve.

malfist 4y ago
What a lot of people don't realize is offices are largely a by product of industrialization. Prior to that, most operations were either family ran and ran out of a home, or even when a company employed non-family members, they often paid piece work. So the employee would work from home, and then deliver their work to their employer and get paid per piece they produced. What's old will be new again.
TigeriusKirk 4y ago
Working remote is a skill. It's not something you automatically know how to do, it's something you learn how to do. It takes time and effort as an individual, and more time and effort as an organization. If you don't put in that time and effort, you won't be good at it, like any other skill.
tomtheelder 4y ago
I do think a lot of it is driven by personality types, but I would attribute that more to personal need for close contact and socialization. I will never thrive in a remote environment- not because I can't manage focus or work asynchronously or anything, but because it makes me extremely depressed. It's impossible to keep my productivity up as my mental state degrades.
- cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  Yeah it's very rough. Even having family in the house with me, I need outside socializing. Even when we were able to shift back to hybrid in-person, I'd drive in the 45 minutes get to the office and find basically nobody there. It was just as isolating, but totally pointless.
- ensignavenger 4y ago
  I know this can be a real challenge for some. Do you think it would help to have a nearby a co-op work space type setting, where you would have others around and you could come and go as desired?

malfist 4y ago

What a lot of people don't realize is offices are largely a by product of industrialization. Prior to that, most operations were either family ran and ran out of a home, or even when a company employed non-family members, they often paid piece work. So the employee would work from home, and then deliver their work to their employer and get paid per piece they produced. What's old will be new again.

TigeriusKirk 4y ago

Working remote is a skill. It's not something you automatically know how to do, it's something you learn how to do. It takes time and effort as an individual, and more time and effort as an organization. If you don't put in that time and effort, you won't be good at it, like any other skill.

tomtheelder 4y ago

I do think a lot of it is driven by personality types, but I would attribute that more to personal need for close contact and socialization. I will never thrive in a remote environment- not because I can't manage focus or work asynchronously or anything, but because it makes me extremely depressed. It's impossible to keep my productivity up as my mental state degrades.

cmrdporcupine 4y ago
Yeah it's very rough. Even having family in the house with me, I need outside socializing. Even when we were able to shift back to hybrid in-person, I'd drive in the 45 minutes get to the office and find basically nobody there. It was just as isolating, but totally pointless.
ensignavenger 4y ago
I know this can be a real challenge for some. Do you think it would help to have a nearby a co-op work space type setting, where you would have others around and you could come and go as desired?