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The other thing this article does not mention is that with many open office floor plans, the amount of conference rooms was never enough to satisfy meeting dema
by sylens 5y ago
The other thing this article does not mention is that with many open office floor plans, the amount of conference rooms was never enough to satisfy meeting demand. So even though I might have coworkers on my team with me in my same location that needed to meet with others in another location, we could never just grab a conference room at the last minute and all sit together there. Instead, we would all have to dial in from our desks (often back-to-back in the open office) and manage mute/unmute there to prevent echo.
I'm glad people are seeing how ridiculous this was.
- mprovost 5y agoWe noticed a lot of "meeting fatigue" with teams early in the pandemic and after a lot of feedback realised that it was because the limited number of conference rooms was constraining the overall number of meetings. Once that constraint was lifted and everyone could meet online, the number of meetings shot way up. It's come down a bit since then but is probably still much higher than it was when everyone was in the office. It will take some adjusting to go back to that, and honestly I doubt we ever will.