Comment on How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?

• MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can replicate that remotely. I’ve had days where 2-3 people joined a call to share something and then kept that call in the background for hours, chatting about random things while working.

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• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can chat with someone for hours on end, but I also like using my own toilet, and having access to a tea, snack, etc.

  For me, what blocks having random conversations is having 1-3 hours of status updates daily - it doesn’t leave much leftover to do the work especially when my firm declaration that it was going to take twice as long as someone else estimated (and then sure enough it did, at minimum, and maybe taking 10x) is ignored. That would block conversations regardless?

  Anyway, the conversations are the content, but them being present physically is only the medium, so WFH does not need to block them, and if anything can help facilitate them e.g. working one in-between other meetings whereas the time taken to physically walk over would have been prohibitive.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Random conversations solve a lot of problems.

  Trends indicate no. The odds of that vs the costs of the distractions - because Mike, I swear to god, you keep clicking that pen and I’m gonna find a new home for it - don’t make it a winning choice.

  In 2002 we solved this with an open skype call where everyone was muted. Convos were easy to start (alt-space to unmute and start talking), which created some distraction but not like Larry and his goddamned sad cowboy music.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    because Mike, I swear to god, you keep clicking that pen and I’m gonna find a new home for it

    Hahahahah, oh man, I hear ya!

    Seriously, I’m as anti-social asbthey come, but I’ve learned the value of people being in the same space. It’s the way we’re wired, and no, calls/video/virtual stuff is no replacement.

    And I’ve had a million random conversations between calls/meetings that have solved many issues, or provided opportunity for improving relationships, etc. These conversations just don’t happen when you’re remote - I say this as someone who’s worked hybrid since the 90’s - there’s no replacement for being in the same space. Again, I’m someone that finds being in the office exhausting - I’d rather be remote.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also a huge value to people working in the same space.

  Random conversations solve a lot of problems.

  If only we had decent VR headsets that were comfortable to wear all day I wouldn’t mind replicating that in a “virtual office”

  Unfortunately, even Apple wasn’t able to solve the comfortability problem.

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