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Yeah I get the feeling that the “I’m so productive now that I’m not being interrupted by coworkers” is basically “we don’t communicate with each other anymore”
by Gigachad 3y ago
Yeah I get the feeling that the “I’m so productive now that I’m not being interrupted by coworkers” is basically “we don’t communicate with each other anymore”
- aurareturn 3y agoI'm also feeling this. I think my experience with remote work is that I can be more productive on a personal level, but I do feel like it's much harder to course correct the team if the overall goal is wrong. For example, while I can knock out more tickets personally, it won't matter if the entire project is the wrong project and I can't influence people enough to change it remotely. I have a sense that things like coding can be done more productively remotely. But everything else leading up to the code part is worse remotely. This includes talking to customers, negotiating with other teams, iterating through designs with the team, selling the idea to executives, and onboarding new customers. The actual writing code part can be done just as effectively remotely. And that part is what most of Hacker News user base does. Therefore, I feel that a lot of pro-WFH people on HN don't actually understand why companies are adamant about RTO. They can't see the overall picture - only their small part - so they conclude that there must be some conspiracy theory like commercial real estate investments driving RTO.