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Umm ... why do you need conference room schedules on the conference rooms? I've never worked anywhere that needed that. How a "zero impact" policy of "look it
by ChristianK 17y ago
Umm ... why do you need conference room schedules on the conference rooms? I've never worked anywhere that needed that.
How a "zero impact" policy of "look it up on your computer/phone"?
(Neat device though; there are other electronic sign age applications that I can imagine it being useful for).
- ROFISH 17y agoWhenever I worked in a corporate setting and wanted some alone time to do work, and not in a bad way, people always came to my cubicle for chit-chat, it was always nice to take my laptop and find an unscheduled conference room by looking at the paper schedules printed on each one. Yes I could've used the scheduling software, but it's far easier just to get up and go.
- thorax 17y agoI just walk into an empty one ~10 minutes after the hour-- which a large percentage of the time at my company means it's free for at least 50 more minutes. If not, I leave when people come by.
- litewulf 17y agoMeeting rooms can change, but if you have a regularly scheduled meeting you will go there out of habit. Another thing is I've had my meetings bumped to a different room (particularly if I reserve a large room but have few attendees) (Not all engineers carry their laptops to all meetings.)
- sobriquet 17y agoDidn't they give everyone Android phones last year? Shouldn't that interface with Google Calendar pretty well?
- litewulf 17y agoYes. My phone is associated with my personal account and not my company one though. Besides, the system predates the phones.
- psranga 17y agoMaybe I'm dense, but if you go to the wrong room you'll only know you're at the wrong room. How do you know what the correct room is?
- run4yourlives 17y agoIt looks like Google's boardrooms are closer to a hotel/conference centre boardroom in terms of use to the boardroom down the hall halfway between your office and the john. That being the case, it makes sense.
- sown 17y agoI remember taking a wireless sensor course and how they were talking about a situation at Intel headquarters trying to synchronize conference rooms. It ended up being similar to travel scheduling which is as it turns out, a hard problem.