[codegeek]

The challenge with remote work is that it requires more discipline and the ones that can truly work remotely are totally worth it but it does attract bad apples who frankly won't do anything (they wouldn't be a good fit in office as well but it is a lot harder to hide in office)

In our team, we have some great remote workers but I had my share of some real bad ones including outright liars. I am very careful if hiring fully remote because frankly, it sets the barrier high and you need to demonstrate that you are dependable to do shit on your own. One person was most likely working 2 jobs concurrently even though I cannot prove it for sure. However, they did not deliver a single thing in 3 weeks and were hired as a senior 10+ PM. When asked why, I was told that I am "too much". Whenever we will message on slack asking a question, they would respond 10-15 mins later almost 90% of the time.

[znpy]

> Whenever we will message on slack asking a question, they would respond 10-15 mins later almost 90% of the time.

in fairness tough, i do that too sometimes, but it's because i'm in the middle of something and i don't want to lose the focus.

when i see the slack notification if it's not about an outage or something similar, i try to finish the thing i'm doing (or at least reach a state where i can commit to git) and then reply.

and by the way, remote work should exploit asynchronicity. forcing people to always reply within 15 seconds is going to burn them out (and would do the same in an office)

[nikonyrh]

"Whenever we will message on slack asking a question, they would respond 10-15 mins later almost 90% of the time."

I thought that was really good, I was expecting more like 30 - 60 min delay on average. That chat isn't real-time communication afterall, personally I have all notifications turned off.

Well for us it is very rare that your progress would be blocked by not having a question answered, that is why we (try to) have well-specified tasks and daily meetups in the morning.

[toomuchtodo]

I purposely respond with a delay (~15 min) to IM messages to not encourage the expectation that you’ll get an immediate response, otherwise I’ll never get anything done with constant interruptions. Boundaries are important, and when set, must be enforced.

Unless it’s an emergency, an IM doesn’t require an immediate response, and I'm unsure how anyone would get focus work done with an expectation of <5 minute responses to IMs consistently.