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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Video conferencing works great if you are dividing labor, assigning tasks or presenting and answering questions.
It starts to faulter when you have more creative or conceptual meetings or need more democratic discussions.
That said both in person and virtual meetings need the same thing, a clear agenda and a good chair person.
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Companies downtown 1,000% over-meet, and meet unnecessarily. I can’t count how many times I’ve been in meetings when simple direction could have been given from one person to another directly (without wasting 10 other peoples time) or even better, by email.
WFH can strip away some of this inefficiency. Inefficiency usually created by lazy middle managers who want a 1 hour meeting to go around the room on a weekly basis and hear about what all their underlings are doing so they can go report up, rather than being a little bit more involved (but not micromanaging) and going to their reports directly during the week and discussing next steps with them in detail / collaborating / thinking through things.
There’s an enormous amount of wasted time and resources in downtown Calgary. Like, massive. WFH does help eliminate some of that.