{"id":19,"date":"2007-03-01T00:49:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2007\/03\/01\/coming-to-work-sick\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T06:25:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:25:59","slug":"coming-to-work-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/coming-to-work-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Work Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco has just required that most business offer paid sick leave. According to Benefitnews.com<\/a> 43% of all American workers have no paid sick leave benefit.<\/p>\n

Dev Room<\/p>\n

Our development team spends most of it’s time in a group room around pairing stations.<\/p>\n

Per Alistair Cockburn, commons allow for highly efficient warm modes of communication<\/a>. Unfortunately, commons spread disease like a daycare center. One cold can easily work through three or four team members. Plentiful supplies of tissue, wipes and hand sanitizer are standard operating procedure.<\/p>\n

As is strong encouragement that sick team members stay home<\/em>. Ironically enough, with a performing agile team this is a hard message to communicate because they simply don’t want to let their team down. <\/p>\n

Modern technology to the rescue! Our office is in Manhattan and we have workers who live in New Jersey and Long Island. In a city that manages to be shut down at least once a year for tragic or trivial reasons, we are setup to telecommute. We equip our team with laptops, headsets, a secure tunnel, skype<\/a> and vnc<\/a>. We’ve found that the developers work so closely and interchangeably together when in the office, they know each other well enough to overcome many of the disadvantages of short-term separation and cold modes of communication.<\/p>\n

It’s typical to have a team member e-mail “I’m not feeling well but I’ll sleep through the morning and try to pair up in the afternoon.”<\/p>\n

How closely we work together facilitates the ease with which we can remote. This mitigates how easily colds spread because we work so closely together. A beautiful symmetry in offsetting, unintended consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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