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The koolaid you speak of is only propogated by the few companies that actually do hire remote. GitHub and 37signals/Basecamp are two examples that immediately c
by argonaut 13y ago
The koolaid you speak of is only propogated by the few companies that actually do hire remote. GitHub and 37signals/Basecamp are two examples that immediately come to mind.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoGithub and Basecamp are companies I'd identify as fairly successful. If they can do it, why are Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Amazon so bad at it?
- argonaut 13y agoGitHub only has 240 employees. Google has around 50,000. Bad comparison. It's like saying "Ruby on Rails works for GitHub; if they can do it, why can't Google use Ruby on Rails?" If you read any of their articles on how they make remote work for them, they do it by and organizing the entire company around remote work, IIRC. And they still have offices.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoSo Google isn't broken down into departments? And departments broken down into projects? This feels less like decision making based on results and more like hand waving by bad managers.
- argonaut 13y agoAnd projects don't talk to each other? And departments don't talk to each other? And departments don't report to inter-department leads/heads? There aren't Director or VP level managers?
- toomuchtodo 13y agoIf only there were some sort of text and voice based communications methods we could use to facilitate the transfer of information between disparate groups...