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In my experience (pre-pandemic included), remote works well when: 1) the employees are already experienced (not a great environment for someone in their first
by rossdavidh 4y ago
In my experience (pre-pandemic included), remote works well when:
1) the employees are already experienced (not a great environment for someone in their first job doing this)
2) the team is small (people who want to freeload are naturally drawn towards larger bureaucracies where they are not noticed)
3) the nature of the work benefits hugely from long periods of low distractions
4) occasional in-person team meetings are good, even if most days are remote
- shyn3 4y agoRemote works really well if pre-pandemic your team was global.
- andrei_says_ 4y agoSimilar experience here. The change is not in how we work (remote meetings, written communication across multiple timezones including EU and Asia) but in where we sit when we work (home office and not an office building office). Everyone is happy to be working from home and energized by the absence of 3-4h of unnecessary daily commutes. Our productivity has at close to doubled. In-person meetings for the whole team (on 3 continents) have never ever happened and never will. Local departments do meet from time to time for lunch or happy hour. When optional (not mandated), these are pleasant and fun. If someone would ask us to go back to work from a specific location, it will be the equivalent of mandating 4 hours of driving in a circle every single day - nonsensical, useless, wasteful, unnecessary, and, possibly sadistic.
- shyn3 4y agoI find it helped local teams communicate with global teams. We stopped having impromptu meetings in the kitchen instead it was in slack and anyone could join