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Conversely for me, meetings have reduced because more people are using slack and email to communicate more frequently, and the quality of their communications h

by dagmx 7y ago

Conversely for me, meetings have reduced because more people are using slack and email to communicate more frequently, and the quality of their communications has gone up. While i know that sounds like hell for some people, it’s where I thrive since I’ve always worked at multi site companies before, and it was the only effective way to scale communication. So I’ve gone from having meetings all day, every day, to having half that amount. When we do have meetings, I’m also able to attend without having to do as many context switches as before. I’m not having to leave my desk, put down my work and move somewhere else. I can work through the meeting without distracting anyone else. I’d say my productivity is at least 2-3x what it was before this. At the same time, I’ll also fully admit that this is entirely subjective to myself and everyone has different ways of working. I thrive with lots of simultaneous communication and parallel tasks, so having everyone talking in slack and email and meetings at once is my ideal situation because the information now actively makes it way to me, and my time spent having to wrangle things is very much reduced.

ghaff 7y ago
Yeah, I'm hardly ever in a meeting where all participants would be in the same room unless it's a special circumstance like an on-site get together or a small meeting with people who just happen to be in the same location. Even if all of us came into an office--which many of us don't either formally or informally--we'd still be on conference/video calls. In some ways, the current situation actually works better because you don't have the mix of physically present people in conference room(s) and people by themselves remotely. (Before this whole thing happened some of the teams I work with already had rules to the effect that if some people were going to be on a remote video link, everyone called in that way.) ADDED: I suspect a lot of people on this board work for small companies with co-located teams in a single location. You get up to companies of even modest size and you end up with people spread over continents and, for many of us, the daily reality is coordinating and having discussions across those continents.
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by dagmx 7y ago

ghaff 7y ago

Yeah, I'm hardly ever in a meeting where all participants would be in the same room unless it's a special circumstance like an on-site get together or a small meeting with people who just happen to be in the same location. Even if all of us came into an office--which many of us don't either formally or informally--we'd still be on conference/video calls. In some ways, the current situation actually works better because you don't have the mix of physically present people in conference room(s) and people by themselves remotely. (Before this whole thing happened some of the teams I work with already had rules to the effect that if some people were going to be on a remote video link, everyone called in that way.) ADDED: I suspect a lot of people on this board work for small companies with co-located teams in a single location. You get up to companies of even modest size and you end up with people spread over continents and, for many of us, the daily reality is coordinating and having discussions across those continents.

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