Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can’t be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom::Zoom CEO Eric Yuan discussed the benefits of in-person work in a leaked meeting.

  • severien@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not exclusive to being in an office. You just need to adapt to a new work style.

    I’ve spent 2 years in WFH during COVID and haven’t seen this working in any of the teams (even though there were attempts).

    One problem is just that remote calls suck a lot, especially if you have latency and audio issues. People talking over each other, then saying “sorry” and waiting 20 seconds, audio too high or low or just poor quality etc.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve spent longer than that and I’m not sure where the issue is. It works fine for us. Perhaps it’s a US thing with poor internet quality?

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        1 year ago

        I’m in the US and haven’t had any issues with being remote and calling a coworker to chat for a bit. It’s not any different than using a phone.

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      1 year ago

      It’s crazy how people have been talking on the phone for like a hundred years and talking over each other was something that was easy to work out.

      But put the same technology on a computer and suddenly people forgot how to talk on the phone.

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        1 year ago

        Group calls weren’t the norm until recently. I fucking despise group zoom calls. I normally will just not contribute at all because it’s impossible to be heard. Someone else will always talk over you. This is the 3rd team I’ve worked remote on, and it hasn’t worked on any of them so far.