[uglygoblin]

The first complaint is about not being able to reach each other and being async. Async is not a requirement of remote work.

Have working hours. Have calendar invites. It's required to make use of in person collaboration so do the same.

[anonzzzies]

Yes, this is not at all a problem of remote/wfh work. We have 4 hours sync per day, and the rest is async. You can have 100% sync, even with people on the other side of the world. What a crap reason to make employees’ lives potentially miserable.

[SilverBirch]

Absolutely, I’ve seen teams of traders work over the pandemic, they worked remotely but they had a zoom call open and from market open to market close they were on that call the entire time. Their working conditions were almost entirely unchanged between remote and the office.

[ryanjshaw]

"Core working hours" addresses ALL their complaints as far as I can tell, not just the first.

[heisenbit]

Remote work enables me to see who is present and get more answers quicker as now I reach out asap. rather than schedule and wait for a meeting. In a crisis to assemble a team also became quicker and due to WFH the ability of that team to tackle a longer crisis increased. I also perceive the hierarchy as flatter.

I miss the non task related communication. Small-talk was never my strength and I suspect I need to get better given the remote working hurdles.