Zoom CEO Says Employees Need to Return Office-It's Hard to Build Trust over Zoom

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4 points·HiroProtagonist··5 comments

Zoom has nothing to do with the difficulty of trust building. Trust building is hard. That they aim at "trust building" as a justification at all signals to me that they may be of a particular personality type that gets a lot of leverage out of in person manipulative techniques that become non-feasible or downright legally dangerous over a medium that could result in a persisted recording.

Which jibes well with my experience of high level management types. There is a lot that can fly under the radar in person that when filtered through a screen makes it easier for even the socially awkward or anxious to muster a defense.

> We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call.

I don't understand this at all. Why does being very friendly preclude good debate? The two things don't seem mutually exclusive to me. The opposite, in fact. The most productive debates are ones where people are being friendly when they're engaging in them. When people aren't friendly (or at least civil), proper debate becomes impossible.

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Or maybe because Zoom barely works with all its crackling sound. It’s works worse than Google Meeting for me. Doesn’t seem to matter whether I use Edge instead of Safari. Always audio issues

have you tried the application?

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