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Raghu Bharat

What are the biggest friction points in working remotely?

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What are the biggest friction points in working remotely?
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Arpan Deb
Procrastination and less than stellar worth ethic.
Abderisak
@phoenixworkspace Well said. It's really about consistency and being able to put in the necessary hours.
Sofya Narbut
Being an offline team feels more like a community. You share your moments with other team members. It's easy to come up to someone and ask for a comment or advice when you are in one building and don't need to schedule a call 39489748 hours prior. It gets lonely when you're remote.
Sofya Narbut
@raghubharat I even do some small coworkings in coffee shops with buddies to get back the sense of the community back
Gabriele Sangrigoli
@sofya_narbut Agree! Well that is also the reason why I like to smile during video calls! because I understand how difficult it can get for some colleagues.
Alina Ihnatiuk
number one experience that is challenging to replicate in remote teams is the interpersonal exchanges that happen outside of regularly scheduled meetings: hallway chats, grabbing coffee, walking to your car/public transit
Rucha Joshi
@antonovna I agree and I really miss hanging out with my team mates in person. I love the flexibility that remote working provides though. We try to nurture out interpersonal exchanges via weekly social sessions online. It helps to an extent.
Rucha Joshi
@raghubharat I agree. Since I do prefer working remotely due to the flexibility it affords. And meeting the colleagues once in a while but regularly does seem to solve the social aspect.
Kristina Longmuir
For me, it is remembering what day of the week it is. This is important because weekends are a reminder to take a break. Being self-employed, motivation and workload isn't the hard part. I tend to work at least a couple of hours every day. Because I don't take the weekends off entirely, I can easily forget if I need to be doing a Monday's workload or a Friday's.
Gabriele Sangrigoli
@kristina_longmuir My gosh Kristina, thank you. Finally someone that is spilling some truth about this! Ahahah IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMEMBER WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IT IS Business idea: Build an app that tells people what day of the week it is, like at least 3 times in a day.
Lucky Murari
Employee burn down and too many meetings for things that could've been done via a water cooler conversation
Lior Galante Cohen (Vaza)
The lack of real, in-person social interaction
James Saurus
Missing my team and the social side mostly!
Rucha Joshi
@james_saurus Just curious, how do you connect to your team socially these days?
Rucha Joshi
@james_saurus Might I suggest you use thursday.social - you can socialise and play games in smaller groups with your team mates. Full disclosure, my team and I created it and launched it today.
Danish Soomro, MBA.
Remote work is not for everyone. I have hired dozen of remote people and found it extremely difficult to achieve productivity.
Samanta Smit
The main problem is in the organization of time. You need to learn how to somehow combine work and personal time.
Germanas Latvaitis
That might sound wrong, but I as a manager of multiple teams, manage by just being there in the office with the guys and gals. No remote set ups or zoom talks can replace that. During lockdowns I usually had around 9 meetings per day. It went down to like 2 per day when i came back. It usually takes 15 minutes to catch up with all the teams. But I agree that the mixed model would be best for us. Split it between remote and coming by once in a while
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