Reddit reviews Distributed Work (The MIT Press)

In response to your edit: Thanks!

I love reading this type of stuff. I'm mostly coming from a sociology background - my obsession with ants has lead down some interesting paths.

For future reference, here's where they can be read online based on google scholar:

An exploration of the psychological factors affecting remote e-worker's job effectiveness, well-being and work-life balance

[The role of emotion in computer-mediated communication: A review](http://www.researchgate.net/publication/222428783_The_role_of_emotion_in_computer-mediated_communication_A_review/file/9fcfd5086e96aeafcd.pdf
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I'm personally a little off-put by the meta-analysis - they are referencing papers from 1987. Literally from months before I was born, before the iPad, before broadband took off. Worth a read I think, but it might need to be with a grain of salt.

I just finished "A theory of Remote Scientific Collaboration" and have started to read a couple of the papers that cite it.



Have you read either of these:
Distributed Work

Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology

They seem to be written by scientists as apposed to the first hand experiences of the team behind Remote. I don't know if they are worth picking up.

One of my close friends worked at a software shop with a heavy focus on remote work and governance that competed directly with basecamp. His latest project was recreating Facebook style communication within the enterprise and we did a lot of brainstorming together and I looked up tons of research on how modern technology affects humans.

One of the biggest things I came away from it with is that you need to work extra hard to ensure that humans feel connected with each other when working remotely. The emoticons was just was facet of that - being an effective part of the 'virtual water cooler' as discussed in Rework.