Since early 2020 most software teams decided to go fully remote and switch to fully geographically distributed teams. The sentiment I see in the onlin

The Problem with Remote Work - by Mojtaba Alfardan

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2023-03-22 11:30:05

Since early 2020 most software teams decided to go fully remote and switch to fully geographically distributed teams. The sentiment I see in the online discourse is mostly in favor of remote work (from the employees side), with people usually citing the flexibility, lack of commute.

Companies pushing for back to the office policies have a hard time articulating why, normally citing "culture” as the reason.

This article is about why I think remote work changes the work environment dynamics and I will try to articulate the negative part of this trade-off outside of the normal corporate speak.

Only one person is able to talk at any point in time, that works for certain meetings whether it's in person or remote but it doesn't work for other types of meetings like:

All hands or large meetings where there is a large number of participants, you should be able to split your focus but no meeting software allows for that.

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