UPDATE: Work schedule

• Removed all ideas that were only relevant for office work.
• Super simplified content.
• Added Unblocking time

Introducing Unblocking Time

The attempt is to create daily whitespaces within each project team, for them to be able to huddle together and remove roadblocks.

Suggested method:

6-7PM slot kept available everyday.
Project leader may setup a slack reminder for the channel to invite each member to reach out wherever they get stuck.
If and when individuals need facetime of other members, without worrying about disturbing their schedule.

They may respond to the slack reminder message with:
I am stuck here and I would like to pull in X
X can be any other individual in the team.

This can occur any time during the day.
At 6pm everyone whose mind space was solicited (through being cc’ed) joins to the zoom link mentioned in the reminder.

Principles:

Keeping time available is the default ask, not booked.
Some (or most times) the unblocking slot will go unused.
Join the call when invited and drop off whenever you feel appropriate.
Keep them short, but light. Play without the weight of appropriate behaviour.

Why this change

Working remote != work alone. We are still a team and there are efficiencies available to be unlocked, when facetime is used appropriately.

A version of this has been experimented with each team and is now being pushed to the main chain.