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by zffr 1816 days ago
IMO what's great about slack is that you can send someone a message and they can choose to respond whenever they're free. If async communication is too slow, you can always ask do to a zoom call for a few min.

In an office I think it is pretty hard to tell when someone is actually available. If you make a mistake and interrupt someone while they are actually thinking deeply about a problem, you can cause a pretty big dent in their productivity.
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fooey 1816 days ago
In the office, I was distracted by coworkers massively more often.

Maybe if the "office" actually gave everyone enough space to have their own office the push-back against going back wouldn't be so bad, but it seems like no company wants to spend the money to have comfortable and productive working environments.

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zffr 1816 days ago
For a few months my company had us in single or shared offices (max of 2-3) and I think it was my favorite office environment for productivity.
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