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>> I'd welcome a remote employee under one condition: They're required to be on a constant video call so their on-site team members can see and talk to them at
by markshead 14y ago
>> I'd welcome a remote employee under one condition: They're required to be on a constant video call so their on-site team members can see and talk to them at any time.
> Completely laughable. Do you have closed circuit TV recordings of everywhere in the office?
I'm actually working with a distributed team that does this. Everyone is on a shared video conference eight hours a day. If you want to talk to someone you look at your video conference team to see if they are at their desk, on the phone, or talking to someone else. If two people need to talk without disturbing others, they mute their video conference mic and jump on Skype. You can still see them, get their attention, etc. but you don't have everyone talking over each other on the main video conference channel.
It actually works a lot better than I expected.
- crazygringo 14y agoThat actually sounds pretty effective, and would get around a lot of the inefficiencies I've had in the past with remote workers. Curious, is it just a window with all the other video feeds that you keep in the background? Or a thumbnail version of to the side? Or a second monitor? I'm curious as to the difference between it being always visible, or something you have to pull up.
- markshead 14y agoMost of the people from home have it on a second monitor. There are about four team rooms on the call as well. They usually have one or two 30 to 50 inch televisions showing the other members.
- jonboutelle 14y agoWhat technology are you using for the shared video conference? I'm looking for something like this. It needs to restore connections when they die (something like Skype will reliably crap out after an hour or so, and doesn't re-establish the connection).
- markshead 14y agoCisco Movi/Jabber. But it was down once and we used Google Hangouts pretty effectively. If a connection dies, you just fire it back up again.