Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can’t be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom::Zoom CEO Eric Yuan discussed the benefits of in-person work in a leaked meeting.

  • Doorknob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see anything ironic about this. Zoom is just a tool for making video calls, it’s not even close to being a sufficient replacement for face-to-face interaction with people. A lot of people aren’t motivated to get work done when they are at home by themselves. In isolation you can feel like the work you’re doing is meaningless and not providing any value to anyone. When lockdowns affected my workplace productivity plummeted - we had people ostensibly ‘working from home’ that were answering a few emails here and there and then checking out without having done any actual valuable work at all.

    If you hate your job, maybe it’s the work/management/culture that is the problem. WFH isn’t a solution to that, it’s just hiding away from the causes of your misery.

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      1 year ago

      In isolation you can feel like the work you’re doing is meaningless and not providing any value to anyone

      What if this is true?

      It is meaningless. People just remember this when being at home.

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        1 year ago

        Good, valuable work has meaning. To assume that it’s all meaningless is a miserable mindset.

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          1 year ago

          You think so? I’m not miserable at all, if that’s what you think… I’m actually really happy. But the work we do have no real meaning I think, but I would love to hear why you think it’s meaningful.