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Re:If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening by cma on Monday May 09, 2016 @06:12AM (#11658656)
Easier solution: quit demanding "respect" by asking people to pay attention through irrelevant stuff to appease your ego. Some meetings will have things relevant to different groups of people over time, and you don't need everyone's full attention for the whole meeting.
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Re:If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening by collyw on Monday May 09, 2016 @06:28AM (#11658713)
Why bother turning up in the first place if it is so irrelevant?
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Re:If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening by vidarh on Monday May 09, 2016 @06:39AM (#11658762)
It's not always a choice. Even when it is not overtly made mandatory, it often have "political" consequences if you are seen as detaching from what happens in the team. Being physically present has significant signalling effects.
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Re:If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening by Freak_NL on Monday May 09, 2016 @06:49AM (#11658798)
"You guys can probably handle this without me. Do you need for me anything else?"

Or, if that is not acceptable due to workplace hierarchy, talk to your manager and explain the problem. If being present is a political necessity, chances are so is not secluding yourself behind a screen.

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Re:If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening by joesb on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:42AM (#11665891)
Telling people to "quit demanding respect" can have "political" consequencs, too.

And may be you missed the point that, like being physically present, opening laptops in the meeting also has significant signalling effects.

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