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A lot of people's jobs almost literally entirely involve interacting with people. There is no alternative to video meetings/calls other than human interaction.
by easytiger 6y ago
A lot of people's jobs almost literally entirely involve interacting with people. There is no alternative to video meetings/calls other than human interaction.
Furthermore when those meetings/calls involve multiple persons it becomes increasingly time consuming and complex to scale efficient interaction. In my experience impossible.
- codingdave 6y agoI'm a product owner. I'm one of those people whose entire job is interacting with people. I do have about 3 hours of scheduled calls every week. The other 37 hours are mostly written communications via email, slack, Aha, Jira, Confluence, Zeplin, comment threads in Office docs... and probably other tools I'm forgetting. And of course, a few hours each week of ad-hoc calls as questions come up. I admit, it took me months to break down exactly which conversations truly need to happen each week, and the smallest groups that still made them effective. But it is quite possible.
- haswell 6y agoIf you'd ever be willing to write about the process of breaking those down and minimizing meetings, I'd be your first reader. As a Product Manager at a larger SaaS Platform company, if I did not carefully say "no" to most invites that come my way, I'd be on calls for 10 hours/day. Even with that, I'm still on more meetings than I should be (currently not sustainable), and I'm actively seeking strategizes to improve this.
- easytiger 6y agoThat's one job. That's not the kinds of jobs I'm talking about.