[lumost]

Different people work different ways. While I miss the ability to motivate a sense of urgency while in the office, there were also many tasks that were purely performative.

When in the office, I had discussions, meetings, and presentations which were all geared mainly to support the idea of the office culture over it's deliverable results. While I see people slacking more while remote, they also aren't creating busy work.

We'll see how it shakes out over the next few years. I suspect that remote teams will have an easier time with recruitment and retention, while being slightly more productive than in-office teams. In-office teams will probably be slightly more innovative by virtue of colocation with non-remote teams and a semi-forced need to do "something" with the time.

[runlevel1]

I've been missing the number of great ideas that would come up during lunchtime chats and while hanging out in the office kitchen.

I'm a big proponent of remote work, but I haven't yet found a way to recreate those experiences over video chat.

[CrashedSandal]

I thought many companies had weekly "chit-chat" meetings over video chat for just hanging around and doing nothing ? My place doesn't have it and we are not a place that welcomes or listens to any kind of ideas so they never cared about that.

[lumost]

Often these are poorly attended, for better or worse the office forces people together for a set period of time. Even out of boredom some folks will come up with ideas, when at home you can just cruise HN or do something else entirely.