This looks like a very well-designed and functional product. From an engineering standpoint, I genuinely applaud your work.
As someone who works remote, this seems like a nightmare and I hope my company never adopts anything like this.
As someone who works remote, this seems like a nightmare and I hope my company never adopts anything like this.
I thought this was satire first :)
> No one will see you picking your nose The moment you touch your nose, your live avatar will immediately become very blurred.
Relatedly, this is actual copy from the page. Emoji will probably get eaten by HN: there's a nose and up-pointing-finger emoji after the first occurrence of "nose" in the second quoted part.
I'd quit so fast if my company adopted this. It wouldn't even be a choice, it'd be like having someone stand behind me and watch me work. I can't do it, I freeze up, I panic, I have an anxiety attack, and I get nothing done. Eventually I quit before they put me on a PIP.
I tried to explain this once to a manager who insisted on moving me to a high traffic location where I could not focus, and wound up eventually quitting (to go remote, to avoid this problem) when I was not productive.
This product is a nightmare.
This is very important because how does your manager know the organisation is running at maximum throughput? A: By making sure they are busy with constant trivial interactions!
Not sure you want to interact? We even detect those tentative, might-be-waves and connect you right through, because we'd hate for you to miss on a possible interaction! PLEASE SOMEONE TALK TO ME I'M SO LONELY AND I CANT STAND BEING IN MY OWN HEAD. Anything for more interactions.
Destroyed your attention span with TikTok and social media? Well you can ruin everyone elses too with your constant, incessant waving to get everyones attention every time you have the tinyest thought, because you're a special snowflake and every single trivial spark of thought needs to be broadcast to everyone all the time. HAHA PRODUCTIVITY!
Its difficult to learn how to do work effectivly, and all of those tools you have to learn are complex. If you have to Google something : that involves sooooo much reading! Skip all that and go straight to someone else. Who cares what they are doing just wave and interrupt!
Your solution is "just turn it off when you dont want it" - well, I NEVER want it
- It feels very intrusive
- I do not want to be this accessible to anyone. Even when I was in an office, I didn't want to be this accessible.
- I would have hard time trusting that "auto blur" would always function as expected
Maybe some non-tech departments would like it? IDK... sales?
This one seems entirely worse than sococo. It drops the idea of physical space and you're just always on with everyone. Ugh.
Can you please elaborate what's your definition of privacy?
Also, the short description of "burnout prevention and employees health tracker" very obviously mean the opposite of what it says. So if your product doesn't actually threaten burnout victims or helps management in heath-based discrimination, you should think on something completely different to say here.