I’m super unproductive when I work remote. I don’t attend all my meetings, I average about 0.4 MRs per day, and probably only 10 lines of code. I make lazy post-development tickets just to check the box. I sometimes take hours to respond to messages, and I frequently end my day at only 5-7 hours worked.
Mysteriously, none of those things is a good way to measure productivity for software development, and mandating that everyone look like they’re working hard does not ensure optimal creative problem solving.
I mean, ya many meetings are largely unnecessary, but if you’re missing a fair bit of them and still employed the middle managers aren’t doing their job I guess 😂
My situation might be unique there (and I realize describing this that calling them “my meetings” might be deceptively inaccurate). I support tools used by multiple teams, so when they’re upgrading or planning, I should be there, but the rest of the time I have nothing to add to their efforts. The result is I’m invited to roughly 20 hours of meetings per week, and attend closer to 8.
I’m super unproductive when I work remote. I don’t attend all my meetings, I average about 0.4 MRs per day, and probably only 10 lines of code. I make lazy post-development tickets just to check the box. I sometimes take hours to respond to messages, and I frequently end my day at only 5-7 hours worked.
Mysteriously, none of those things is a good way to measure productivity for software development, and mandating that everyone look like they’re working hard does not ensure optimal creative problem solving.
You don’t attend all your meetings?
I mean, ya many meetings are largely unnecessary, but if you’re missing a fair bit of them and still employed the middle managers aren’t doing their job I guess 😂
My situation might be unique there (and I realize describing this that calling them “my meetings” might be deceptively inaccurate). I support tools used by multiple teams, so when they’re upgrading or planning, I should be there, but the rest of the time I have nothing to add to their efforts. The result is I’m invited to roughly 20 hours of meetings per week, and attend closer to 8.