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I don’t know many great alternatives, but usually people will point to email in this case. And great documentation (wiki/FAQ/Readme) to preempt a lot of potenti

I don’t know many great alternatives, but usually people will point to email in this case. And great documentation (wiki/FAQ/Readme) to preempt a lot of potential questions. I find those work well for me and it’s what a lot of people like because it reduces the amount of urgent but non-important interruptions in their work.

chadlavi 4y ago
Call me crazy but I would like to occasionally talk to and see the faces of my teammates in real time. We're not robots in factories. We're humans. I love remote work but a workplace is different from, say, an Internet forum.
- wildzzz 4y ago
  One thing I've noticed is that people are less prone to personal discussions over a conference call compared to in person meetings. We only rarely do in person meetings now because of how quickly we can get through a meeting. One thing that contributes to this is the fact that you are sitting at your computer with plenty of other things to work on other than the meeting. When you're sitting in a conference room, there's no work distractions so people find other things to talk about, whether it's what they did that weekend or other work discussions that are unrelated to the meeting. One other thing is that since a Teams meeting feels less "official", we can have multiple status meetings a week where it's not mandatory to call in for every one of them. Our in person status meetings were once a week and would go for at least two hours since it was easier to get people together for a long time once a week than a short time multiple times a week. A status meetings once a week was simply not enough because of how quickly things changed throughout the week so by Wednesday, the plans for the week could have changed or someone's progress may have been halted due to a problem. Very inefficient!

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I don’t know many great alternatives, but usually people will point to email in this case. And great documentation (wiki/FAQ/Readme) to preempt a lot of potenti

by justusw 4y ago

chadlavi 4y ago
Call me crazy but I would like to occasionally talk to and see the faces of my teammates in real time. We're not robots in factories. We're humans. I love remote work but a workplace is different from, say, an Internet forum.
- wildzzz 4y ago
  One thing I've noticed is that people are less prone to personal discussions over a conference call compared to in person meetings. We only rarely do in person meetings now because of how quickly we can get through a meeting. One thing that contributes to this is the fact that you are sitting at your computer with plenty of other things to work on other than the meeting. When you're sitting in a conference room, there's no work distractions so people find other things to talk about, whether it's what they did that weekend or other work discussions that are unrelated to the meeting. One other thing is that since a Teams meeting feels less "official", we can have multiple status meetings a week where it's not mandatory to call in for every one of them. Our in person status meetings were once a week and would go for at least two hours since it was easier to get people together for a long time once a week than a short time multiple times a week. A status meetings once a week was simply not enough because of how quickly things changed throughout the week so by Wednesday, the plans for the week could have changed or someone's progress may have been halted due to a problem. Very inefficient!