[bluefishinit]

> Companies with leaders that feel like collaboration is less important, are more willing to set metrics and not be as directly as involved, and hire experienced employees with less oversight, lean towards remote work.

I feel like collaboration is very important which is why I only run teams WFH and never in the office. There's no collaboration happening when people are crammed together in a building, just posturing.

Collaboration for remote employees is amazing though. You can even look at large open source projects where people who have never even spoken to each other successfully develop software together.

[bluefirebrand]

I kinda agree here, especially with modern tools.

Screen sharing on a call is a 10000x better experience than "just come over to my desk and look over my shoulder"

Screen sharing is better for pair programming, mentoring, demoing, everything. It's awesome.

The only real downside to calls is that whiteboarding is a challenge, but tbh Whiteboards are anti-productive, they are where communication goes to die imo.