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by Natales
2087 days ago
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I've been working remotely for 6 years now, and 5 of those was at Pivotal, a culture famous for pairing. I love it, and I have turned down offers that cannot guarantee me a similar situation post COVID. We used Zoom since ~2015 regularly, and Hangouts before that, and given that the company had many offices around the world, and the majority of teams were distributed (largely optimizing for the same timezones), being home office-bound was no different that being on another office. We constantly experimented with the latest tools and practices to be more productive at a distance. For example, some pairs were connected on video all day, in addition to keyboard/screen. It wasn't easy for everyone, but ended up achieving the goals. Post COVID, my current company is in the process of re-imagining office work, more towards intense collaboration spaces. Most of the work can still be done remotely, getting together for specific activities every once in a while. I really believe this model could represent the future for this type of work in tech. If the company culture is such that remote employees are not second class citizens and HR has set rules to back that up, anything is possible. |
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