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I am not going to defend Zoom's RTO plan because I do truly believe that most people who work on computers can work remotely (I do, and I enjoy it). However ..
by habosa 3y ago
I am not going to defend Zoom's RTO plan because I do truly believe that most people who work on computers can work remotely (I do, and I enjoy it).
However ... this feels correct. This is basically the same as saying that Zoom is a meeting tool and there is a lot more to building a trusting and productive team than just having meetings. Building a happy remote team is definitely not a simple task. Sounds like Zoom is not doing what it takes, I think that says worse things about their company than their product.
- ncallaway 3y agoYes, but as a person who is running a remote first company I'd much rather put my faith in a company that understands how to be a remote first company. So, Zoom is out as a product for us. We use discord at our company, which just _fits_ a remote workflow so much better than zoom. Which makes sense, given their job listings have a whole lot for "... or Remote" (https://discord.com/careers https://discord.com/careers). Zoom would be able to build a better product, for more users, and capture more value, if they understood how to build a remote working team, and put in the work to do that.
- judge2020 3y agoI wonder how much dogfooding there is at Discord. Do they really use it for their main work communications? Maybe falling back to Google Chat (which looks like it's now a usable experience[0]) for SRE and war room type issues. 0: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/new-google-chat-spaces-will-be-in-line-threaded.html https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/new-google-c...
- habosa 3y agoFrom what I’ve seen with friends who work at Discord: yes they do.