Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
full-time remote work has positive and negative effects that many people don't talk about - positives: more freedom to do stuff, ability to work less, "skip out on work" - no incentive to brag about this - negatives: losing interest in career progress, comfort/apathy with less work (one person described this as "remote handcuffs" (thinking they may not be able to recreate this), undermining career networking early in careers - again, no incentive to "complain" - people will say you should be grateful
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
What about for different types — say individual contributor type of work? Remote can be definitely more productive imho when done thoughtfully Lots of benefits for focus, deep work all that stuff But of course, requires good norms and protocols are about communication expectations My plan with my next gig is which is hybrid to use in person for internal navigation management meeting things And use remote days for writing reading analyzing planning planning that sort of stuff Lifestyle benefits that are less kosher to talk about in the work work work work work work work work hustle culture We’ll see how it works
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
i think from talking to many people it is highly context dependent and individual personality dependent and of course you have the same variance in big orgs as well, but much of organizational industrial norms are about smoothing that variance yeah i think the lifestyle benefits are also limited to the brooader networks in which you operate
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