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It's more than three years since most people started working from home. Can you estimate when you expect these impacts to start showing up?
by ctoth 3y ago
It's more than three years since most people started working from home.
Can you estimate when you expect these impacts to start showing up?
- Filligree 3y agoSpeaking for myself, I’m getting the hang of training people remotely. It takes more structure, and it took a year to learn how, but it’s totally doable.
- duckmysick 3y agoCan you share what worked and what didn't when it comes to training people remotely?
- Filligree 3y agoChecklists are the big one. We've got a big spreadsheet of general areas that people should know, each with a lecture attached, but those are for self-study; I go over each one in detail with each new hire in a series of sessions typically lasting ~3 months, at 2-3 sessions per week. Separately, I hold what amounts to office hours 3 times per week, where anyone who feels like it can show up to ask questions—but new hires are encouraged to do so until absolutely certain they don't need to, and also to keep track of questions between sessions. There's more, but this is the part that's easy to explain. What didn't work... crucially, waiting for newbies to ask questions doesn't work; they won't. You need to actively go looking, and also bring up areas they might not even know they ought to ask about.
- duckmysick 3y agoThanks for the answer. I see the theme is you have to be proactive instead of passively dump info hope for the best. It makes total sense.
- cm2012 3y agoSeriously. GDP and productivity are super high right now.
- dfxm12 3y agoAnd wages? ...just slightly higher :|
- red-iron-pine 3y agothat's been happening since the 1970s :/
- tessierashpool 3y agoIt's more than three years since most people started working from home. a lot more than three years. remote work goes back decades before covid. GitHub, Shopify, and Stripe all started as remote companies. the really annoying thing is not the legions of people who believe it all started in 2020. the really annoying thing is that there's a ton of excellent literature on how to do it, and when it suddenly became mainstream in 2020, the newcomers ignored all that literature.
- insom 3y agoShopify only went remote in March 2020, after being strongly anti-remote for a long time. You're right that they have leaned into 100% remote since the pandemic, however. There were remote employees before (especially in Production Engineering and much of Support), but R&D was almost all in person. (Source: I miss the productivity of the Elgin Street office ...)
- tessierashpool 3y agoI'm talking about the period from 2006 to 2008 or so. source: that's when I met Tobi and a few other early people.
- matchbok 3y agoNobody knows. What will catch up soon is any country in the USA time zones discovering they can do you job for 20% pay. People who think they will be able to work remotely while making top-city salary are delusional.
- Niksko 3y agoI disagree with GP. The impact on employees (junior or otherwise) and the hit to productivity exists, it's just a result of under investment in remote-first working practices. Anything between fully remote and fully in office / everyone in the office on the same days per week is going to be shown to be disaster. I think the effects are going to start presenting now, but because it's a new phenomenon for most organizations, it won't be recognized for another year or so. The next 2-5 years are going to be littered with stories along the lines of 'progress ground to a halt and nobody could put their finger on why, so we tried a bunch of stuff that didn't work and eventually realized it was a lack of any remote strategy'