Which in-office practices have a hard time translating into a hybrid environment?
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Completely agree. My most productive and worthwhile work was when I did IT work but got paid by Marketing Services <br>I sat with them, went to their Christmas parties, I was them. Miss those days most out of my entire 30+ years of work
Whiteboards don’t work well in a hybrid environment. I'm a very visual person. I love to have a room with a big whiteboard to sketch and rework things on, and have a discussion with people there. You can't do that as easily. And I’ve tried a couple of electronic whiteboard tools, but it's just not the same. And I don't know why—I never came to grips with doing it on Teams or Zoom. It just didn't seem to work the same way.
I agree with you. A lot of people, especially in the development community, myself included, love to deconstruct a problem on the whiteboard. We are pictographic. It's something a lot of us do miss. I can scribble on my iPad with a pencil, but it's just not the same. I don't get that tactile quality: the friction that the whiteboard gives, the smell, the sounds if it's a bad marker. I miss all those things and that is an important thing to call out.
Apart from white-boarding in conference rooms, and being able to just walk up to someone and fix something. Or listen to a problem area of a specific business function by a coffee machine -
Our seating in our office was very unique. We didn't sit with our teams. Our Brand and Culture team worked with facilities to make sure that there was a mix of various business functions in each pod of 6-8 people. So, I had someone from marketing and sales and support around me that gave me a perspective of “their world”. This really helped us solve problems for our customers (other internal and external) and partners. I think we're really missing this interaction that enabled us to contribute and do MORE in a collaborative sense.