julieannie

Do you think workplaces understand collaboration can be asynchronous? I’ve found my own industry seems very behind on this understanding but I’m curious what you have seen.

I've realized in my role that they wanted me more for my cheerfulness for employees and not for external people. In fact, many external people had accessibility issues reaching us (transportation, childcare) and love that we offer things like Zoom meetings now. I still am client-facing, they just can reach me in many different ways. My company still isn't considering that implication but it's made me rethink roles I will accept in my industry going forward.

This is so true. I've worked at a satellite location from my team for 6+ years and then fully remote for nearly 2 years now. The library and other community gatherings like Venture Cafe or clubs or hobbies became so much more a part of my life. I haven't been able to participate with the pandemic (being high risk) but I expect that I'll rejoin later. I've found people's entire social life often resides with their work community and I've been so much happier since I shifted away from that model more than 7 years ago.

If you don't subscribe already, Filament's Monday Morning Meeting newsletter has really helped challenge my perception of meetings and become so much better at managing. Unfortunately for me I now work for a team that uses meetings to have fights but this job has an expiration date so the lessons will last much longer than my employment.

I've had a chance to see some of the work being done in Missouri by the dogs. I really wanted to say that it made all the difference in at least one case we worked and I know that everyone is looking forward to seeing how many more people can be helped when the dog at Wentzville is set. Thank you (and all involved) for your work!