> There are _some_ roles which may require in-person
IME when working in a Product role, it worked better from the office. Doesn't have to be every day, but being able to talk directly to people is much better than having to schedule meetings.
Tech positions don't even need daily video calls IMO. My team experimented with a few days of written status updates and it was fine. But they chose to have a 10-mins stand-up mainly for socialization.
> being able to talk directly to people is much better than having to schedule meetings
i do not understand what people are talking about when they say things like this
personA: hey @personB you got 20 mins to talk about XYZ?
personB: yeah gimme 10 mins
personA: k, i’ll grab a coffee
personA: /zoom start
that’s ^ not scheduling a meeting. that’s having the same direct conversation but with like one extra step (joining zoom).
the rest of what your comment says is fair enough. i just see this mentioned a lot in anti-WFH leaning comments. often about how hard it is to mentor a junior.
(i can’t remember the exact slack command but you hopefully get the idea).
Well, that's already 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds.
And that's without taking what sibling poster said: sometimes people take 1h, 2h, 1 day to reply you on Slack.
With face to face communication you convey more than "the message".
This comes from personal experience: dealing with tech people with Slack-only communication is fine. Dealing with non-tech people is much different.
For example, I just RIGHT NOW have to ask a Salesperson about whether a feature is ready to go into prod. I can just walk 10 meters to their desk and get an answer in 5 secs. OR I can write to them in Slack on email and get an answer Monday, because they have 20 unread Slack messages and 500 unread e-mails.
You might call this "a bother" to them. To this Salesperson, which happens to be my buddy: this is how they prefers to work.
IME when working in a Product role, it worked better from the office. Doesn't have to be every day, but being able to talk directly to people is much better than having to schedule meetings.
Tech positions don't even need daily video calls IMO. My team experimented with a few days of written status updates and it was fine. But they chose to have a 10-mins stand-up mainly for socialization.