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EternalNY1 t1_jecwmbt wrote

Reply to comment by 3vi1 in CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow by ethereal3xp

>I've been in IT for 30+ years.

Same here, and remote for over a decade, far before the pandemic.

These return-to-office policies are especially absurd in IT, as literally everything I do is logged.

Every line of code I check in, pull request I complete, comment I make in our item tracker, timestamps on when I log into servers, exactly what I'm doing on said servers, discussions in Teams and Slack, emails ... all day long, every day.

If they think I'm sitting around watching Netflix on the couch all day, they can simply look in our DevOps system and see all the lines of code I've comitted.

Makes no sense.

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G3sch4n t1_jegoyn3 wrote

The only somewhat understandable argument is that sometimes great ideas are based on random exchanges between people from different projects that happen during coffee or lunch breaks, but if teams/slack/zoom are used effectively, you can mimick that with group calls.

Specifically gamers tend to communicate that way in tools like discord and teamspeak.

Many of the bigger mmo rpg guilds are basically structured like companies. Remote communication works just fine for them.

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