{"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":"<p>San Francisco has just required that most business offer paid sick leave. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/ebn.benefitnews.com\/news\/flexible-workplace-options-build-loyalty-2683608-1.html\">Benefitnews.com<\/a> 43% of all American workers have no paid sick leave benefit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/room-001.jpg\" alt='Dev Room' \/><\/p>\n<p>Our development team spends most of it&#8217;s time in a group room around pairing stations.<\/p>\n<p>Per Alistair Cockburn, commons allow for highly efficient <a href=\"http:\/\/alistair.cockburn.us\/index.php\/ASD_book_extract:_%22Communicating,_cooperating_teams%22\">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<p>As is strong encouragement that <em>sick team members stay home<\/em>. Ironically enough, with a performing agile team this is a hard message to communicate because they simply don&#8217;t want to let their team down. <\/p>\n<p>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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">skype<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/\">vnc<\/a>. We&#8217;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<p>It&#8217;s typical to have a team member e-mail &#8220;I&#8217;m not feeling well but I&#8217;ll sleep through the morning and try to pair up in the afternoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>San Francisco has just required that most business offer paid sick leave. According to Benefitnews.com 43% of all American workers have no paid sick leave benefit. 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