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We come together with remote colleagues to work. I can confidently say that high-bandwidth wears off pretty quickly. High-bandwidth is not essential 90% of the
by laserlight 2y ago
We come together with remote colleagues to work. I can confidently say that high-bandwidth wears off pretty quickly. High-bandwidth is not essential 90% of the time, and it's easy to compensate the remaining 10% simply by taking more time. In my experience, bandwidth of remote work has been increasing, as people keep organizing themselves around it better. So, the difference will only get smaller.
Most important benefit of RTO is the social aspect, in my experience. And, even that wears off rather quickly. Whether there's a “benefit” depends a lot on one's colleagues, in the first place.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoYou can have some of the social remotely too. I’ll often open our weekly engineering meeting on Slack with a few minutes of people talking about their weekend or related stuff. It happens in chats as well. Of course we’re a small team who have worked together for years.
- laserlight 2y agoDefinitely. I've become close friends with a colleague without meeting once in real life. That being said, physical presence brings a different dimension to social relations.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoagreed, it absolutely does