[drenvuk]

Anyone who thinks working at home is going to be the new normal is delusional. If I'm in the office the first people I'm going to talk to are the ones sitting across from me. After that we might move to the whiteboard and forget about everyone else we can't easily pull in.

The people working at home will be left out and it won't even be deliberate.

[ozim]

I don't know what company you are working for or what area but in my company we have team of specialists.

You cannot just grab a sales guy and plan a release of a new product with him but you need an engineer as well. If that engineer will be WFH you will have to schedule a meeting and he has to agree to the timeline.

Grabbing someone from the desk should die and everyone should respect others work. I think WFH is helping with that because people who are agreeable have additional defense. Going to someone because you need an answer "RIGHT NOW" is most annoying thing when I have my own work. Lack of planning on your side is not automatically making it a priority on my table. Sending an email, scheduling call are perfectly fine options unless it is real fire with firefighters storming through the door, not some imagined fire like demanding customer.

[daniellarusso]

I would like to hope this is true.

In our weekly Slack summary report, 80% of our usage is 1 to 1 direct messaging, not private group chats, and not channel chats.

We have moved to the virtual grab.

At least in real life, you could see if it was happening.