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This is very common in some industries to have always-on two-way screens connected to workers in another office. A company called Tandberg was the main maker of
by goatinaboat 7y ago
This is very common in some industries to have always-on two-way screens connected to workers in another office. A company called Tandberg was the main maker of them. It’s owned by Cisco now but everyone still calls them Tandbergs.
Typically you would have one at the end of a row of desks to “extend” that row to another row physically located in another office and vice versa
- jon-wood 7y agoI love Atlassian's implementation of this[1] where they installed "portals" around their offices, connected to a counterpart in another office - if you want to chat to someone you can walk over to the relevant portal and do so, but because they're always on and in public places they also facilitate the sort of spontaneous conversations you get when you bump into someone in the kitchen while making a cup of coffee. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/developer-lives-saved-with-portal-device https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/developer-lives-save...
- dsaffy 7y agoGenuinely curious: do people actually use these at Atlassian? In college we had a portal to another college that looked very similar, and it was never used.
- cbzbc 7y agoAt one point I worked at what had been Tandberg; and there were a couple of teams there with remote workers who were represented by a desk with Tandberg terminal on it with a always on session running all day.
- kilroy123 7y agoThat doesn't sound bad at all. Having a webcam pointed at my face all day and showing on some monitor would be very discomforting.
- goatinaboat 7y agoSet it up right and you could look all the way around the globe at the back of your own head :-)