What are your views on remote work? Is this the future or just a phase?
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As an African with non-tech background, I find remote work to be liberating and more rewarding. I’m curious to know your views on remote work.
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Remote work has both pros and cons. I would expect a hybrid working model in the future that satisfies both.
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@sridevi_m 100% agree - remote working was so necessary during COVID but I think it's important to not lose sight of the benefits that face-to-face interaction can offer above a fully remote model (where possible).
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@sridevi_m Highly agree! I prefer working at home, it provides me more flexibility and higher productivity. However, sometimes I still need to talk to my teammates face to face, it’s inevitable!
Remote work definitely has a place in the future IMO, although as others have said, I imagine hybrid will be the most common model adopted by business.
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Flexible/ remote work will likely become the norm for many companies and industries where it is possible to WFH. It’s really that lockdown has proven we can still be productive and achieve targets, without actually being in an office.
I just enjoy being home to receive my parcels without having to get it delivered to work 😂
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@jenny_zhai Thank you for sharing Jenny, as a PM are there any issues you face with flexible / remote teams? e.g. communication lapses
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@jenny_zhai agrees.. more preference of working environment.. as long as people stays productive.
I think remote working has allowed people to be able to stay productive while under the weather or manage time better between work and say time to get to work on public transport. This is also good for employers because they also realize that maybe the space they use is too much of a cost when people can produce equally if not better quality work from home.
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@medinaluis I agree with what you said. Working remotely is a great opportunity to prevent people from spending their hours in traffic and decreasing their productivity.
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@medinaluis yes.. more choices for the way of working and surroundings
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I like a combination!
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Very much depends on the management team. If they can manage their people remotely, then it's the best they can go with. If management lacks skill though, hybrid or in-house will stick to them for loooong, as they will consider it superior to others.
@wekh I have been hearing that people who are working hybrid end up commuting to work only to be on Zoom calls all day - something they could have done Work-From-Home!
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@paul_d_michaels2 if this is true then the management is dumb af. What I meant, some people need to be working in hybrid mode because you cant leave office completely in some cases, for example there always need to be at least one IT admin in case someone manages to freeze their internet explorer :) Although, if working from site gets down to sitting on online meetings, then it's as wrong as it could get.
It's mixed. On one hand, I agree - it's liberating. But on the other hand, it would be nice to have people at the office, especially more senior devs, who could spend time by showing some know-hows.
P.S. I'm a junior developer, I think juniors will understand me
@dan_yes it is much easier to train junior developers in an office environment.
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I like remote work, it's important for me to change the working environment, so I don't get tired of the monotonous environment. To say that this is the future, yes, because renting an office for + 200 people is not a cheap expense.
Oh for sure it is the future. I think we're going to see more ideas focusing on socializing caused by lack hours at the office.
Co-working space is just one of them.
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@bestbubbledev yes.. new places, new people, new networks.
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