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Remote Working: The Day 8,000 People Suddenly Worked From Home Through the Present
The COVID-19 pandemic quickly and radically altered the way many people and organizations feel about the potential for remote work. Some people say "Now we'll never do in-person meetings again", but that's simply not the case.
In this talk, I'll describe the transition that Thoughtworks made to remote working initially, and how we look today at the value of remote, hybrid, and in-office work.
Speaker
Rebecca Parsons
CTO @Thoughtworks
Dr. Rebecca Parsons is Thoughtworks' CTO. She has more years of experience than she’d like to admit in technology and large-scale software development. She recently co-authored the book Building Evolutionary Architectures with colleagues Neal Ford and Pat Kua.
Before ThoughtWorks she worked as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, after completing a Director's Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her interests include parallel and distributed computation, programming languages, domain specific languages, evolutionary architecture, genetic algorithms, and computational science.
Rebecca received a BS in Computer Science and Economics from Bradley University, and both an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University.
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