review/2024/03/04/view-the-async-first-playbook

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review/2024/03/04/view-the-async-first-playbook

TL;DR: If you don’t have patience for lengthy prose, jump to the summary for a quick view. Hello friends! In early 2008, one of my friends told me that he was quitting his current job and going to work for an European company, but from Pollachi (a small town in western Tamil Nadu), his hometown. It was a big shock for all of our friends. This became a hot topic during our tea breaks the following days. None of us believed it was a sustainable idea. We convinced ourselves that he would come back to the office very soon. But it never happened. Since then, I have heard here and there that people are working remotely. But they were mostly exceptions. Meanwhile, I joined thoughtworks, where we have open tables and are encouraged to work collaboratively. Even though I felt insecure initially, as people can peek at my screen without any effort, I got comfortable over time. My day usually starts on one side of the table and ends on the other end. As a tech lead, I was quite comfortable navigating near my teammates whenever they or I needed to work together. Remote work was never on my radar of thoughts. But all changed in a day—the day curfew called out, the day when we were ordered to stay inside our home and continue our normal lives. To be frank, it wasn’t that bad initially. Our team had built a very good Rappot before COVID. It helped us immensely in breaking the barriers set by distance. Though it wasn’t a smooth sail, it wasn’t rough water either.

https://rrameshbtech.github.io/review/2024/03/04/view-the-async-first-playbook.html