 We're tied to a cliffside next to friends of ours, last night they pulled in and told us about how their summer has gone so far. They said something interesting on remote work, and how it is now more difficult than before. They used to be able to work on the hook, answering student's emails remotely, but now that everything is a video call, a remote desktop, a cloud app. The shift to remote work has made it harder for them to keep on working remotely. 11 comments
@utopify_org Because async communication has fallen out of fashion, the explosion of tools to do real time communication has brought with it the belief that people ought to be reachable at all times during workhours. That work hours is not only hours of work, but access hours. Which is incompatible when you live on the water and weather and tide dictates where you can be and at what time.  @neauoire yeah so so much of that stuff is set up to be on a high bandwidth connection and totally shits out without it. Discord is the big sucker in my life these days a lot of my work goes through there and transferring it would be hard, but as soon as I'm out of 4g or my WiFi is on the fritz it is a miserable experience She asked us if maybe we knew tools that could help with collaboration on presentation documents for low-bandwidth situations. And while of course we know a lot that could help, to add insult to injury, a handful of her students use chromebooks, which sets a hard limit the tools the class uses, the limit being google slides. The accessibility push of google to put chromebooks into student's hands, seems to have the effect of shifting the cost from buying the terminal, to paying the ISP.  The Big Mistake™ of the past was to think that everything on a screen must look like a TV show, rather than thinking of it as a book with an infinite number of pages.  @neauoire |
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@neauoire Yeah, a lot of "remote work" is "always accessible" and that's a real problem.