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by MattGaiser
2215 days ago
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Fair, it is going to depend on the boss and how your office interactions were before everything went remote. > if you aren't speaking with your manager weekly, or really almost daily, then something is very wrong. I am someone who likes a lot of autonomy. In-office, beyond my Scrum team, I am otherwise trusted to deliver what I need to deliver. That leads to few check-ins and mostly social banter with my boss as I will be in touch if I require anything. No news means all is well. It is just that remote removes most of the social banter and problems don't pop up for weeks. |
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Our larger department has a Monday check-in and a Friday check-in wherein our boss's boss speaks to each one of us—checks in with how we're doing, whether we need anything, if we're stuck or whatever, and also raises questions to us that have come up in their own work. That is often mixed with more congenial banter and chats. Sometimes we throw in a game of Jackbox or something.
My own team has taken to at least a round of something like Counter Strike for the last hour of the day each week. Sometimes almost every day depending on our work load.
Combined with Slack my immediate manager and higher-level bosses are as reachable as ever.
I'm sure once things can safely open up again there will almost immediately be some kind of meet up for drinks and whatever because of course that can't quite be replaced, but I don't think being remote most of the time has to be such a social handicap.