Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by websap on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:11PM (#28835669)

The problems with virtual rooms is that you can't have small breakout conversations naturally. In-person I can walk around a space and talk to small groups of people. On a virtual conference call, if I'm speaking everyone has to listen to me, which makes speaking for some people even harder.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by Corrado on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @03:56AM (#28837213)

There was a "meeting" startup on HN last year (several years ago?) that had such a product. Each "room" had multiple tables, which you were free to move between. You could sorta hear people at the other tables; the closer the table was, the easier you could hear the people at it. There was also a "stage" feature that allowed someone to address the whole room at once.

It seemed like a pretty good experiment, but I don't think it caught on. Maybe Slack (or Teams) should aquihire them and implement something similar.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by joncrane on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @07:17AM (#28838363)

gather.town? We used it for a few virtual meetups where I'm based.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by 8note on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:03AM (#28836577)

Among us with proximity chat as a work conference call?

I was wanting to do that for my birthday last year, but I know too many people who don't own laptops

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by paulryanrogers on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:33AM (#28838887)

In my case I setup a Mumble server which allows break out rooms

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