"Zoom orders workers back to the office" is funny, but there's nothing unique about Zoom doing it.
All these companies show that they don't understand how effective work is actually done, and how to organize around that. Instead, they're relying on the implicit benefits of the past where work _happened_ to be done in person (but they don't know how).
As I coach software teams (and do so remotely), it's pretty clear that the root problem is that folks never knew how to work together in the first place.
And I do mean "work together," not folks siloed in their little caves where you have no idea what they're up to.
Working together is a skill, it doesn't come for free. It can be learned. It can be taught.
@qcoding I’ve been doing lots of user interviews and synthesis over the last few weeks.
It’s *much more difficult* remote. The tools aren’t there. Miro suuuuucks compared to a real whiteboard. Long Zoom meetings are much more fatiguing than in person.
We use Tuple for pairing. It’s the best option by a long way and it’s significantly worse than two people/monitors/keyboards/mice in-person. We don’t (can’t!) swap driver/navigator nearly as often.
Interesting. I always felt that Miro is way better than real whiteboards. Faster typing than writing, copy&paste of any kind of material, links, easy archiving and search if needed, no waste of paper, integrated tools like timers, voting make it easy and effortless and etc. just work…
Really, the physical whiteboard, I didn’t miss it from the first second on.
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