Hi,
To the original question. I tend to have an opportunity to work at
least partially from a home office, and I have a decent one for that
too. However, I tend to prefer not to, for the sake of my own
productivity (office 'forces' to get things done) as well as liking
the place and people there. Additional advantages of the office for me
are also improved communication and separating personal time and work
hours a bit better. Communication part can also be a disadvantage at
times but during those days I can stay home.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:
Nobody is saying that distributed teams can't do good work. Just
that - compared to co-located teams in good working environments -
they're under a disadvantage.
That's some major disadvantage btw, especially so when you deal with
big(ger) groups. This gets even more scary if people are spread over
different time-zones. My team has been trying to bend over our backs
to avoid these situations the last few years and notably even as we
speak. Let's see how things work out, though. Communication, help,
ideas, critique etc are just so much easier to arrange that it seems
to be worth fighting for for us.
Again, not to say that it's not possible to do good/excellent work
with distributed team, but I've found it to be harder.
Best regards,
- Janne Kaasalainen
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