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You can be at the office and forced to do a zoom meeting because some people are in another office/country.
by cranium 3y ago
You can be at the office and forced to do a zoom meeting because some people are in another office/country.
- geraldwhen 3y agoI haven’t had a fully collocated team in 15 years. The only purpose of RTO is tax breaks and stealth layoffs.
- diggan 3y ago> The only purpose of RTO is tax breaks and stealth layoffs God forbid there might be actual people (including developers) who prefer to work in an office with others. Impossible!
- mfost 3y agoThey are free to return to the office and work with each other in person then.
- diggan 3y agoRight, so there are more reasons for RTO than tax breaks and stealth layoffs then. Good to know.
- srveale 3y agoRTO usually means mandated, company wide RTO, not "there's an office if you want." So no, not right.
- eru 3y agoGoing by my own experience, everything being remotely or everything being in the office (regularly, but not necessary all the time) works best. It's hard to make a hybrid approach work, where some people are mostly in the office, and some people are always remote. However the extra burden falls mostly on the remote people, so I see not much of a reason to disallow people from going remote.
- geraldwhen 3y agoThey are not afforded that opportunity. They are required to work with remote people/groups across split sites.
- OJFord 3y agoOk sure, but God also forbid there might be people who don't? Or if someone on there team wants to work in an office with them they should have to go in like it or not? RTO is clearly not about 'end-employee' preferences, having an office can be about that, but RTO is just come to the office regardless of your preference.
- 0xEF 3y agoI think the real question in this scenario is "could this have been an email?" Video meetings are disastrously unproductive in my experience. I have no problem with remote workers doing their thing, but being on the production and service side of things in manufacturing, taking time out of my already busy schedule for an hour-long video meeting that could have been summarized in a single-paragraph email makes my day feel like stop-and-go traffic. It is a remarkably halting experience I used to joke about, but after years of a considerable amount of wasted time that leaves me running to meet deadlines and shipping dates, I have trouble laughing at it anymore.
- ryandrake 3y agoUnfortunately, the answer to "could this meeting have been an email?" is often “but do you read your email?” I try to always reach for Email first, but if I don’t get a response or see the requested action happen… over to videoconf we have to go :(