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"core physical team" What is that, in the context of remote work? I worked remotely for 3 years at my last job. The lead lived half way across the country fro
by RogerL 13y ago
"core physical team"
What is that, in the context of remote work?
I worked remotely for 3 years at my last job. The lead lived half way across the country from HQ, as did I, and as did the lead QA. More importantly, we regularly traveled for different installations and tests, so today to talk to Joe you were calling Texas, but week he'd be in NM, and so on. Meanwhile you were on your own rotation. I perhaps exaggerate the amount of travel, as there were plenty of times where most people were at HQ except for the permanent remote workers, but the larger point is that it had to work with no core team in one place, because many times during the year there was no such beast.
It works.
- DigitalSea 13y agoCore team as in people physically in the one location within the same time zone who can solve problems in person. As someone who works for a company where people are moving about it does work most of the time and quite well, but the time zone differences can sometimes be frustrating when you need an answer on something important the other person is sleeping. I understand some places might not have a core team, but a lot of places do. Sometimes it is required to have people you can physically talk to, Internet connections can be unreliable as can Skype and syncing files across the country or world can sometimes hinder progress if one or the other have slow Internet connections.