Great to encourage remote dev. For me the whole idea of working in offices at fixed hours and daily commutes is bizarre.
On the video calls I would say that this superfluous and most teams I work in rarely use it. Basically it is all IM until a conf call speeds things up.
One thing to avoid is trying to transplant the office culture of pointless meetings, chit chat and "face time" into remote working. This is an opportunity to change the work ethos as well as the workplace.
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Great to encourage remote dev. For me the whole idea of working in offices at fixed hours and daily commutes is bizarre.
On the video calls I would say that this superfluous and most teams I work in rarely use it. Basically it is all IM until a conf call speeds things up.
One thing to avoid is trying to transplant the office culture of pointless meetings, chit chat and "face time" into remote working. This is an opportunity to change the work ethos as well as the workplace.
For some people yes, but for others no. It depends entirely on what type of collaboration makes your work more effective!