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[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't feel that traveling for an event to another office of your company is useful - I flew to US from EU to sit in one room with the same people I usually see in Teams. But what is really useful is:

one one one or small group offline meetings - you can resolve (or discover) problems that you couldn't just by meeting online.
Attending conferences and such - yea, you spend a lot of time just drinking, hanging around, or sitting in your airbnb. But you also exchange a shitton of information with a lot of people, get to really know someone, learn from them (even if you thought you knew them before from online calls), and just establish good relations

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah its the small convos where things get interesting. also hardware in person is better than remote where you can really check the thing out and maybe get them to open it up and such.

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, I was working in Mobile development, and even working on a phone app can be better offline. Our qa came up to me and demonstrated how screen content was twitchy when he touched it - interactions like that, some lags, and other shitty behavior sometimes can't really be demonstrated if you are just sharing your screen