Remote Work, Meetings and Focus

These episodes cover working from home and the meeting culture that comes with it: staying visible when nobody sees you work, return-to-office mandates, calendars with no gaps left in them, and getting focus time back.

27 episodes of Soft Skills Engineering, the weekly advice podcast where Dave Smith and Jamison Dance answer software engineers' questions. Every episode is free, and each page below has the listener's question in full.

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Every episode about remote work and meetings

  1. Episode 524: My CTO AI-codes big piles of slop and early mornings, late meetings
  2. Episode 486: No one on my team talks and skip level meetings
  3. Episode 471: Why does my junior engineer do so little and I fell asleep in a Zoom meeting
  4. Episode 470: I said something stupid in a meeting and just want to code
  5. Episode 418: Should I "rest and vest" and how do I avoid 3-hour agile meetings?
  6. Episode 387: No juniors and manager forced to return to office
  7. Episode 376: Return to office and quitting tech
  8. Episode 372: Equity and getting interrupted in Zoom meetings
  9. Episode 367: Hybrid denier and recovering from crying
  10. Episode 349: Performance review dissonance and being a remote manager
  11. Episode 327: Remote with onsite team and undercover refactor
  12. Episode 304: My subordinate is smarter than me and confused in meetings
  13. Episode 268: Title inflation and solo remote engineer
  14. Episode 259: Moving up to meetings and will remote work stay a thing?
  15. Episode 233: Manual unit testing and WFH demotivation
  16. Episode 219: Remote crickets and Manager Careering
  17. Episode 206: Micromanaging WFH and vaguely tech lead
  18. Episode 204: Remote work and ghosting your employer
  19. Episode 178: Procrastinating colleague and working remotely for an on-site company
  20. Episode 168: Self-snooping and work from home jeopardy
  21. Episode 143: Dealing with meeting interrupters and setting work limits
  22. Episode 121: Working Remotely Without Hating It and Managing Rotating Engineers
  23. Episode 70: Appraisal-Driven Development and Meeting Creep
  24. Episode 69: A Know-It-All Lead and Selling Your Boss on Remote Work
  25. Episode 62: Many Meetings and Surviving an Acquisition
  26. Episode 56: Keeping Meetings On Track and Designer-centric Culture
  27. Episode 33: Damaging Your Credibility and Meeting Potential Employers In School

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