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Honestly just don’t think you can in any way that will be meaningful like IRL is. Video chat and the delays and how only one person can talk at once it just is
by whywhywhywhy 4y ago
Honestly just don’t think you can in any way that will be meaningful like IRL is.
Video chat and the delays and how only one person can talk at once it just isn’t possible to have proper conversation and connections.
Before the pandemic I would have believed it’s possible but now I just don’t care about remote workers anymore because I have been burned multiple times by them in ways that would never happen with IRL teammates.
- bognition 4y agoYeah, definitely. The almost real time nature of video chat kind of kills the experience. That doesn't mean there aren't other things you can do to improve cross team cohesion and moral.
- herval 4y agoWe actually stopped doing video calls and do exclusively audio, with or without sharing screens or apps like miro/figma, and I feel like stress dropped meaningfully. Video calls are awful, they add noise and delayed visual cues that just confuse the brain.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoWill agree the high framerate of talking over a Figma document is good for communicating that doc way better than screenshare. But we moved all design ideation and strategy to IRL because something about the delay, audio quality and only one person talking at once kills the ability to think and problem solve. It’s like because your brain is so focused in deciphering the meeting that it can’t get into connection building mode that drives new ideas.