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Not just WFH but now that everyone is ramped up for large remote meetings, this could/should dramatically reduce the need for business travel. Pre-pandemic I t
by acidburnNSA 6y ago
Not just WFH but now that everyone is ramped up for large remote meetings, this could/should dramatically reduce the need for business travel.
Pre-pandemic I traveled cross country somewhat regularly for meetings that could easily be done remotely. Sure there's some value sometimes in hallway conversations, but not enough to justify flying around whimsically blowing vast CO₂ in the middle of a climate crisis.
Someone should just make a more random hallway-conversation feature in Zoom or whatever. Or maybe we could normalize doing lunch together and casually chatting on zoom for certain important remote meetings (but not even close to all, please lord).
- bonestamp2 6y agoOn this note, can we also have some regular phone meetings again? I mean, I've worked remote for 13 years now. Although it has been available for most of that time, we almost never used video during calls in the past. When covid hit, suddenly calls I've been having for 10 years require everyone to be on camera. Video has its benefits of course, but it's not always necessary and it's more exhausting than a voice call. If I'm talking to people I've worked with for 10 years, I actually think it's worse to always do a video meeting. We're not looking at each other anyway, we're looking at what we're working on, and being on camera is so much more draining. Does anyone else feel like a step back to more voice calls would actually be a step forward in happiness?
- icedata 5y agoWe do our daily meetings audio-only and it's definitely less stressful. Less is more.