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Re:We surveyed 331 remote workers and here's what they say by reallydontask on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:02AM (#22075759)
> 2. Office meetings suck. If you are the only person dialling in to a meeting and the rest of the team is local there are tons of issues. Noise, missing out on sidebar conversations, etc.

This always annoys me. Just make everybody dial in. The amount of wasted time with these kind of meetings just because people don't get it. If a side conversation starts, all bets are off for people dialled in, as the speakers will look at each other, which almost certainly means away from the spider phone/mic.

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Re:We surveyed 331 remote workers and here's what they say by gregmac on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:07PM (#22077352)
One of our big conference rooms has a couple remote mics on either end of the table, and I've been on the remote end when people have had a sidebar conversation hovered directly over one of them. Even though they were talking quietly, for everyone remote they were totally drowning out the main conversation.
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