About a year ago I moved to a new, largish company and, for the first time in my career, got to see …
About a year ago I moved to a new, largish company and, for the first time in my career, got to see how a company can be bad at remote work. It's by being bad at work, period, but in ways that can be partially mitigated by being in-person. Poor documentation of processes, lots of know-the-right-person involved in getting anything done or figured out, using Teams (its design is remarkably awful for organizing and communicating within and among... teams) rather than literally any other notable chat system, et c. This stuff is also making in-person work less efficient but it's easier to work around the problems when in-person. Better than resisting remote work, would be for them to suck less at managing a business. Even if they continued resisting remote work, they should do that!
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