The power of remote work is unlocked by working asynchronously with many folks at a time, each of whom can choose for themselves when to focus and when to interact. This is lost on people who insist on using Zoom et al to simulate the synchronous in-person experience.
Blocking "focus time" space on your calendar is the best way to push back on Zoom culture, and is both rational and easy to defend the business value of.
I ask the engineers on my team to aim for two full days a week of focus time (Tue and Thu seems to be working) and at least one 3 hour block on each of the remaining days (in whatever part of the day overlaps least with the rest of the team timezone-wise). We miss this for incidents or voluntary hacking together, but n for required/ritual meetings.
Also, I guess I took the clickbait, but stop it: extroverts as a category didn't do any purposeful harm to introverts as a category, and certainly didn't ruin anything for them. Play to your strengths and GLHF!
+1 for blocking focus time in your calendar. Added bonus: you look busy to those who think you are only working hard when you have a booked calendar ;)
Btw I consider myself a bit of an extrovert and I feel slightly offended by this article. I love you introverts and I apologize for any harm “we” caused.
I feel like you missed the point. If remote work is unavailable then there are no zoom meetings.
As far as working asynchronously, that can happen remotely or in the office.
The power of remote work is unlocked by working asynchronously with many folks at a time, each of whom can choose for themselves when to focus and when to interact. This is lost on people who insist on using Zoom et al to simulate the synchronous in-person experience.
Blocking "focus time" space on your calendar is the best way to push back on Zoom culture, and is both rational and easy to defend the business value of.
I ask the engineers on my team to aim for two full days a week of focus time (Tue and Thu seems to be working) and at least one 3 hour block on each of the remaining days (in whatever part of the day overlaps least with the rest of the team timezone-wise). We miss this for incidents or voluntary hacking together, but n for required/ritual meetings.
Also, I guess I took the clickbait, but stop it: extroverts as a category didn't do any purposeful harm to introverts as a category, and certainly didn't ruin anything for them. Play to your strengths and GLHF!