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Say what you will about working from home but my company went almost entirely remote after COVID and I have barely spoken to anyone who isn't on my team in 4 ye
by donatj 2y ago
Say what you will about working from home but my company went almost entirely remote after COVID and I have barely spoken to anyone who isn't on my team in 4 years.
I used to regularly chat up our support, design and production people because we would just happen to be standing near each other waiting for our tea or something. I have to actively seek out that sort of talk now and frankly I'm really shy so that's not going to happen.
I genuinely think it's been a major loss.
- solidasparagus 2y agoWe used an app to automatically schedule coffee chats between random people when we went remote. It was a good way to intentionally add back random opportunities for relationship building that were lost in the remote world. Also, we were more intentional about giving time at the beginning of meetings for random chitchat to replace what used to happen as you waited outside a meeting room. They aren't quite the same, but I think they helped.
- zer00eyz 2y ago> I genuinely think it's been a major loss. I cant tell you how many times I got grumbles from CS or a tip of the hat from an accountant that made me go peal back the curtains and find a problem that was bubbling just under the surface. Boundary conditions are where problems come from. Human signals are a good place to look for those, and people are good at seeing patterns. Yes you get noise in there too, but planing ahead for potential problems means good solutions are quick...