In my time working from home for 6 years, I experienced both ends of the spectrum and can see both sides of the discussion. One situation was that everyone was geographically dispersed, we collaborated via email, sometime, conference call etc, whatever fit the subject and the size of the group. Since everyone was in the same situation, it seemed to work ok. A differnt situation was where I was the odd person remote, and everyone else was centrally located. I was just one voice on a speakerphone in a meeting room filled with people, and that didn't work out so well. There was also a lot of face to face exchange due to the nature of the environment (sort of a lab setting). Luckily I had a couple of good co-workers that kept me informed and pointed me to the correct people for information.
Dana On Thu, 25 May 2017 18:23:56 -0400, Gord Tomlin <gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com> wrote: >On 2017-05-25 17:32, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >> there is no tool yet invented to completely supplant regular*informal* >> office interaction. As Tom Brennan said, working across from someone invites >> casual*unplanned* communication that can be vital. > >I think what you say is true in an organization where the norm is being >in an office together, and the odd person works remotely. > >When it becomes the norm for people to work remotely, the informal and >unplanned communication tends to migrate to whatever communication >medium a team chooses to use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
