Should EA / Alignment offices make it ridiculously easy to work remotely with people?
One of the main benefits of being in person is that you end up in spontaneous conversations with people in the office. This leads to important insights. However, given that there’s a level of friction for setting up remote collaboration, only the people in those offices seem to benefit.
If it were ridiculously easy to join conversations for lunch or whatever (touch of a button rather than pulling up a laptop and opening a Zoom session), then would it allow for a stronger cross-pollination of ideas?
I’m not sure how this could work in practice, but it’s not clear to me that we are in an optimal setting at the moment.
There have been some digital workspace apps, but those are not ideal, in my opinion.
The thing you need to figure out is how to make it easy for remote people to join in when there’s a convo happening, and make it easy for office workers to accept. The more steps, the less likely it will become a habit or happen at all.
Then again, maybe this is just too difficult to fix and we’ll be forced to be in person for a while. Could VR change this?
Should EA / Alignment offices make it ridiculously easy to work remotely with people?
One of the main benefits of being in person is that you end up in spontaneous conversations with people in the office. This leads to important insights. However, given that there’s a level of friction for setting up remote collaboration, only the people in those offices seem to benefit.
If it were ridiculously easy to join conversations for lunch or whatever (touch of a button rather than pulling up a laptop and opening a Zoom session), then would it allow for a stronger cross-pollination of ideas?
I’m not sure how this could work in practice, but it’s not clear to me that we are in an optimal setting at the moment.
There have been some digital workspace apps, but those are not ideal, in my opinion.
The thing you need to figure out is how to make it easy for remote people to join in when there’s a convo happening, and make it easy for office workers to accept. The more steps, the less likely it will become a habit or happen at all.
Then again, maybe this is just too difficult to fix and we’ll be forced to be in person for a while. Could VR change this?