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If you want a profile photo to be mandatory, you better be getting a photographer in to take company staff photos. Then make it mandatory for them to use this p
by radiojasper 4y ago
If you want a profile photo to be mandatory, you better be getting a photographer in to take company staff photos. Then make it mandatory for them to use this photo as their Slack profile pic. Add it to your company policy and inform HR that this should be included in the onboarding process.
Downside: it's costly to have professional photos taken with each new staff member and some process need to be changed.
Upside: you're no longer talking to Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. Also it looks professional and it's in my opinion better for overall company culture.
- tssva 4y agoMany companies already have photos taken as part of onboarding, usually no professional photographer involved, or require photos to be provided by remote employees if in person onboarding isn't required. They are used for company badges and uploaded to company directories. The directories are often tied into cloud services such as Slack where the picture becomes the user profile for that service. For Slack their SCIM API can be used to do this.
- caseyohara 4y agoAnother downside: when all of the profile photos are uniform and visually consistent, you can no longer quickly distinguish one person from another. At that point, profile pictures become less useful on the whole.
- NoPicklez 4y agoThat's just simply not the case.
- radiojasper 4y agoThat's just plain wrong.
- resonator 4y agoAs someone with moderate face-blindness, it would be true for me.
- zhte415 4y agoIt seems logical because we work in the same team and in fact do the same exact thing as each other and we also have the same penchant for avocado toast and Mac Book Airs. We even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.
- 71a54xd 4y agoI just use photos from when I was in college haha.