Le Hollandais Volant

[in 2020] a lot of people suddenly started talking about working from home and distributed teams, and a lot of those people who were talking very loudly, had themselves only been working with or managing distributed teams since March. And a fair amount of what you could about the subject then, and can still read now, is complete and utter bullshit.

Effective distributed collaboration is not pretending to be in an office while staring into a webcam all day.

You will never be able to capitalize on work as a distributed team unless you kick some office habits. The key to distributed teams being effective is not that they happen to not be in the same place, as you’ll see from the remainder of this talk. So to expect success from the approach that you take the habits of an office, simply remove the element of locality, replace every face to face meeting with a video call and carry on, is ludicrous.

The good news is that if you do it right, you’ll end up with a far better team than a local one would ever be, and everyone has a chance at far better work-life balance, and you don’t waste awful amounts of time and energy and fossil fuels on your commute.

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Le télétravail c’est pas juste du « bureau à la maison en 9h-17h ». Faut arrêter avec ça.