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Meetings with part in office, part remote, are so cumbersome and awkward compared to all in office or all remote. The cadences between the two conversations ar

• beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
  In my experience, I've found that to be the case when the meetings are already effectively pointless and not well organized. One solution is to make meetings more structured and important. This has the benefit of also making them rarer. When I've been in meetings that have clear goals and an agenda/talking points to go through so that people stay on topic, I found them to be far more bearable with mixed remote and office employees.
• sgt101 4y ago
  The problem is that even if everyone is in the office, they are often in different offices. I currently work at a company with people resourced into projects from two other countries (soon 4), with a plethora of customers on other sites in my country. We have three offices in this country as well, and the head office is in a different country again. Almost every decision (which requires a meeting) requires someone from this diaspora. So we are on video no matter what.
• corobo 4y ago
  If I had a quid for every “you’re all muted now, I can’t hear anything you’re saying”
  • sideshowb 4y ago
    The average hn person presumably does get at least a quid for all the connection faff every meeting
    • corobo 4y ago
      Hah. Fair point.
• alaricus 4y ago
  Man, we used to waste so much time running from one conference room to the other. Not having to do that saves a lot of time for natural organic conversations.