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by lolinder 1110 days ago
This is such a classically offensive extrovert take. "Because I enjoy random and spontaneous interaction, everyone else must too." Introverts are just a conspiracy by the lazy.

I highly recommend reading Quiet.

I'm lucky enough to have found a team entirely composed of introverts. It's fully remote, and it's the most productive team I've ever been on. We have the most comprehensive test suite I've ever seen, the fastest rate of deployment, the fewest prod incidents, and I'm finally able to stay focused for a whole day without being interrupted for meaningless chit-chat.

That your team hired people who can't be trusted to self-manage is not a reflection on remote work, it's a reflection on your hiring process.
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iforgotpassword 1110 days ago
And your team is the norm rather than the exception? How about fields other than software dev? Just like the other replies, you pretend I said people who do better in WFH scenarios don't exist, at the same time you admit that you're "lucky enough" to have found such a team, admitting that it is in fact the exception.
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lolinder 1110 days ago
> Those people who say that they're much more productive at home must be a minority of a minority, and the rest of them just lie because they want to slack off.

This reads as though you called about half of the people here liars.

If you didn't mean to imply that most of the people here arguing for WFH are really trying to preserve their chance to slack off, I would read back over your post and consider changing your language, because it's pretty obvious that most people who read it took it that way. You can't blame other people for misinterpreting you when that misinterpretation is the most common way to read what you wrote. :)

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A4ET8a8uTh0 1110 days ago
One of my previous teams had little to do with software at all. It was simple office processing. Zero physical presence needed. Now, some managers did want to stand over your should to badger you to 'speed up' review, but I would argue that this only introduced more issues ( you only make more mistakes with someone watching over your shoulder ).

There a lot of jobs like that. Phone customer service comes to mind as well.

Now, there are jobs that can't be remote ( butcher for one ), but we shouldn't pretend its just development that benefits from remote.

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