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He talks about hybrid which I agree is shit. Too much juggling going on.

You either go full remote and organize yourself around async and better written communication. Or you all sit in the office the whole time and much of the comms is just talk. The in between sucks.

I worked full remote and it works fine. Teams were working well, information flowed, blockers were dealt with. We didn't even use our cameras in meetings. Now I worked for 1 month hybrid and am quitting. This has all the downsides from both remote and on site working.

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We went all remote during the pandemic, now different people use all three options.

If you’re remote it works well enough.

If you have an office when you’re in the building it works well enough.

If you have to use the cubes it’s a disaster.

You can hear other people in Zoom meetings all day.

You can hear the other people in your Zoom meetings that are in the office twice.

Of course you may have trouble hearing your meeting anyway due to the other meetings, or people standing around talking.

You can’t grab a meeting room for just you. A bunch of people who are in the same meeting can use a meeting room’s conferencing setup. Unfortunately it works very poorly for people on both sides of the call.

Maybe it would be better with taller/bigger cubes. Or sound deadening foam. Maybe not.

Straight hybrid, without doing anything different to all in office, does not work. And I don’t think many companies would invest that kind of time/capital even if it would improve productivity.

Exactly... People sitting next to me ping me on team chat instead of talking.

Everyone zoom calls all the time where I can hear other people in other zoom meetings in our zoom meeting. I hate it.

when we worked full remote. We gave a stipend to setup with proper microphone/headphone setup. We requested people to sit in a quiet location for meetings. Worked wonderful...

this hybrid shit just makes everything much worse....

This https://krisp.ai/ works well to overcome background noise and conversations during meetings. It cleans up the audio you send and also the audio you receive. Not affiliated with them at all, just a satisfied customer.

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