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.
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.
The most frustrating part of the pro office talking points for me is the line about meeting in person being easier. My team is spread across four states, I’m either on a zoom meeting at my house where there is always a quiet room from which to take a meeting at a comfortable desk. Or I’m in the office, an open office with hot desks where you can’t leave keyboards, mice, computers, etc overnight and you have to reserve a conference room to take a zoom meeting (all meetings). Now I’m wasting time setting up my desk every day, reserving rooms for all my meetings, kicking people out of the rooms I reserved. Huge loss of productivity for the Corp. I’m not staying late because you wasted so much of my time, I gotta hit the road to beat traffic.
Don’t forget the “commuting to an office just to talk on Zoom to somebody 400km away in his own home”
Work in an office, they said. It will be easier for meetings, they said.
It’s crazy how shortsighted and dumb companies are.
It’s not that they’re shortsighted and dumb (well, many are, but that’s not why they’re spouting this BS), they know those reasons are full of shit, they just need some excuse that sounds better than “we signed a 4 year lease and so we’re going to make that your problem” or “the CEO is getting lonely and misses being able to walk around the office among all his minions”
True. Even with like 20 - 30 meeting rooms there are always people posted up in all of them. Even if you reserve a desk or room, someone will be there.
Their excuse is usually “I reserved a different one but someone’s in that one now.” So you have to take someone else’s, and they inevitably interrupt your meeting. At the beginning of this chain of room theft is probably an executive who doesn’t even know how to sign up for a room.
Being at home is like 3x better now. I don’t care about free coffee or food. I buy exactly what I want at the supermarket.