Timeline for What are the disadvantages [to the employer] of working from home?
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| Sep 6, 2015 at 19:52 | comment | added | Eric | MS Paint over an unreliable screen sharing connection is vastly inferior to sitting in the same room with a whiteboard. | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 22:52 | comment | added | Rikki | @Carson63000 What tools do you use? | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 22:30 | comment | added | Carson63000 | @Rikki I work at a startup that is quite positive about people working remotely, and I can tell you that in my experience a decent remote communication process is still massively inferior to actual in-person communication | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 20:34 | comment | added | alephzero | Collaboration can be possible without co-location. One of the projects I work on is a long-running three-person team with one member in the UK, one on the USA west coast (8 hour time difference from the UK), and one in India (4 1/2 hour time difference the other way). We meet up physically for about 1 week per year on average. I think the critical issue is trust, in both directions, between employee and employer. What works for three senior and experienced people (as above) would be a crazy risk to take with three new starters. | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 16:21 | comment | added | Rikki | @Ben I'd expect the cost of putting in place a decent remote communication process (using things like sqwiggle.com, some form of IM or Skype) is far less than the ongoing cost of having an office. The time and effort comes in converting an ancient company to this mindset, which is why a lot of companies that positively support remote working are startups (they planned it in from the start). | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 9:02 | comment | added | Luaan | @Ben You need people who are a lot more independent, and who do not shy away from communication (it's a lot easier to say two words to a colleague in an office than doing the same remotely). Those people are a lot rarer, and more valuable - if you're good enough for 100% remote work, you're probably going to be quite expensive :D | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 6:55 | comment | added | Ben | Collaboration is a function of communication. Communication is difficult when everyone's remote. Not impossible, but a company has to put a lot more time and effort into it. | |
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| Aug 28, 2015 at 3:21 | history | answered | Jane S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |