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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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This often just feels like bad management. They go remote, but don't change a lot of other things or attempt to mitigate the downsides (there are downsides, everything is a trade off) and then claim its a failure when they need a stealth layoff. Also IBM has a long history of "Resource Actions" so this type of thing is not all unexpected from them.

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> rather than literally any other notable chat system, et c. What is better? I hate Teams, but Slack really wasn't much better.

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And being in an office doesn’t help if no one on your team is in the same office. If you work in a large company that has multiple offices, you are still going to have the sane problem because eventually the person you need is not going to be in your office. Even the small companies I’ve worked at (100-700 people) had multiple offices where you had to coordinate time to meet with the people you needed. I’ve also worked remotely for the second largest employer in the US. Amazon has internal “interest” channels for each service team (the team responsible for an AWS service). Anyone could ask a question and usually one of the developers of the service would help.

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