>That’s more familiar. Humans staring in random directions. Many clearly not listening.
They are all starting at their screens. You can tell because of the reflection and glow. That in no way means they are "clearly not listening."
>Here’s the question, how many humans are on this call?
>Zero.
>There are no humans on this call. Yes, there are 14 participants with their video on, one with their video off, and someone dialing in.
And they are all human.
>You have five base senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Bonus fact: you actually have seven.
There are a lot more, like a sense of danger, a sense of being manipulated, etc.
>Every single of these senses, yeah, even vestibular and proprioception, are limited in a video conference call. You do not see the entire person; you see them from the chest up.
Unless you are crawling around or peeking under the conference table, you can only see people from the waste up in a regular meeting. Please don't peek under the conference table.
>when someone attempts to insert a vital fact only stomped by the current speaker who hasn’t heard the interruption yet.
People interrupt other people all the time in face to face meetings. It's not great there either. At least on a conference call, I can mute someone if they get overly obnoxious.
>I’ve been looking for cracks. I’ve been looking for leading indicators of future doom. The Great Resignation seems like a proper crack, right? But are people quitting their jobs because they can’t work together or because their current job sucks and all this terror in the area has given them a new appreciation of what really matters?
From what I can tell many people are quitting shit jobs that require people to be at a location (like a restaurant) with shit pay and no benefits. I suspect they are sick of paying for childcare and commuting too. They aren't just quitting to sit around in their underwear, they're going to better jobs with better benefits like healthcare, and the ability to work remote, which doesn't require childcare. Childcare is friggin expensive too and probably not great for their upbringing either.
>A video conference is a sterile dehumanizing experience.
So is going to meetings and commuting to an office every day. I'd pick a conference call 7 days a week and twice on Monday.
This is obviously an emotional sell to get people back into the office. It's pretty weak on actual reason other than the author likes to smell people and look under desks perhaps.
They are all starting at their screens. You can tell because of the reflection and glow. That in no way means they are "clearly not listening."
>Here’s the question, how many humans are on this call?
>Zero.
>There are no humans on this call. Yes, there are 14 participants with their video on, one with their video off, and someone dialing in.
And they are all human.
>You have five base senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Bonus fact: you actually have seven.
There are a lot more, like a sense of danger, a sense of being manipulated, etc.
>Every single of these senses, yeah, even vestibular and proprioception, are limited in a video conference call. You do not see the entire person; you see them from the chest up.
Unless you are crawling around or peeking under the conference table, you can only see people from the waste up in a regular meeting. Please don't peek under the conference table.
>when someone attempts to insert a vital fact only stomped by the current speaker who hasn’t heard the interruption yet.
People interrupt other people all the time in face to face meetings. It's not great there either. At least on a conference call, I can mute someone if they get overly obnoxious.
>I’ve been looking for cracks. I’ve been looking for leading indicators of future doom. The Great Resignation seems like a proper crack, right? But are people quitting their jobs because they can’t work together or because their current job sucks and all this terror in the area has given them a new appreciation of what really matters?
From what I can tell many people are quitting shit jobs that require people to be at a location (like a restaurant) with shit pay and no benefits. I suspect they are sick of paying for childcare and commuting too. They aren't just quitting to sit around in their underwear, they're going to better jobs with better benefits like healthcare, and the ability to work remote, which doesn't require childcare. Childcare is friggin expensive too and probably not great for their upbringing either.
>A video conference is a sterile dehumanizing experience.
So is going to meetings and commuting to an office every day. I'd pick a conference call 7 days a week and twice on Monday.
This is obviously an emotional sell to get people back into the office. It's pretty weak on actual reason other than the author likes to smell people and look under desks perhaps.