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I would like an option to select only jobs that require less than 1 hour total per day on Zoom call(s). What's the point of remote when you sit for hours and h

I would like an option to select only jobs that require less than 1 hour total per day on Zoom call(s). What's the point of remote when you sit for hours and hours of Zoom (etc) calls and meetings? I can be really productive but only if uninterrupted and left to do actual work.

SyneRyder 4y ago
Or even, no Zoom calls at all. I worked remotely for 10 years, we never had any Zoom calls or phone calls. Only contact was via email, and all the work was done 100% asynchronously. I'm interested in working remotely, but only if the company is working asynchronously, letting workers choose their own hours, etc. Not if they regard remote work as a way to save on rent & office equipment while keeping the same synchronous micromanaging behaviors.
nisegami 4y ago
You know what's worse than zoom calls while working remotely? Zoom calls at the office.
- scrapcode 4y ago
  Exactly. The poor souls required to telework with 2-3 days in office that are in different branches than me but under the same division basically just go into the office to jump on the same Teams meetings that we're on at home.
justinlloyd 4y ago
A couple of jobs back, years before the pandemic, the company got acqui-hired by a big WITCH. I went from full-time WFH to commuting an hour each way, two hours for a single journey if the traffic was bad. I'd arrive at my desk, and... log in to a computer located 2,000+ miles away from me in a secure data center, and work on some secure software. During the day I'd have meetings, all remote, where I'd have to hunt for an empty conference room, because you cannot have a remote meeting at your desk and disturb all the colleagues around you. All scheduled meetings were required to be remote, even if the other people you were meeting with were in the same building, because we didn't want to discriminate against those meeting participants that were on the other side of the country or the world. People would horse-trade meetings, as in, "who else is on this meeting? Just the two of us? I'll cancel my meeting due to a conflict or personal errand, you want to go grab coffee and just casually chat about work?" And then at the end of my work day, I'd hang around until the wee hours of the morning at my office desk, so I could have a remote meeting with the team in Taiwan because corporate required that all meetings are required to go through their network infrastructure for security. There were other reasons I quit, but I was so demotivated by this corporate stupidity. I lasted a grand total of 90 calendar days. I still to this day do not know if I was being screwed with, but everyone I spoke with said "yep, that's how we do things around here, and nobody can get it changed even though we've tried."

SyneRyder 4y ago

Or even, no Zoom calls at all. I worked remotely for 10 years, we never had any Zoom calls or phone calls. Only contact was via email, and all the work was done 100% asynchronously. I'm interested in working remotely, but only if the company is working asynchronously, letting workers choose their own hours, etc. Not if they regard remote work as a way to save on rent & office equipment while keeping the same synchronous micromanaging behaviors.

nisegami 4y ago

You know what's worse than zoom calls while working remotely? Zoom calls at the office.

scrapcode 4y ago
Exactly. The poor souls required to telework with 2-3 days in office that are in different branches than me but under the same division basically just go into the office to jump on the same Teams meetings that we're on at home.

justinlloyd 4y ago

A couple of jobs back, years before the pandemic, the company got acqui-hired by a big WITCH. I went from full-time WFH to commuting an hour each way, two hours for a single journey if the traffic was bad. I'd arrive at my desk, and... log in to a computer located 2,000+ miles away from me in a secure data center, and work on some secure software. During the day I'd have meetings, all remote, where I'd have to hunt for an empty conference room, because you cannot have a remote meeting at your desk and disturb all the colleagues around you. All scheduled meetings were required to be remote, even if the other people you were meeting with were in the same building, because we didn't want to discriminate against those meeting participants that were on the other side of the country or the world. People would horse-trade meetings, as in, "who else is on this meeting? Just the two of us? I'll cancel my meeting due to a conflict or personal errand, you want to go grab coffee and just casually chat about work?" And then at the end of my work day, I'd hang around until the wee hours of the morning at my office desk, so I could have a remote meeting with the team in Taiwan because corporate required that all meetings are required to go through their network infrastructure for security. There were other reasons I quit, but I was so demotivated by this corporate stupidity. I lasted a grand total of 90 calendar days. I still to this day do not know if I was being screwed with, but everyone I spoke with said "yep, that's how we do things around here, and nobody can get it changed even though we've tried."