We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon

Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by rhino369 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:05AM (#31654484)

Quick phone calls are often more efficient than emails. For status updates, downloads of information, sure email works. But if you want a back and forth exchange of ideas, talking is often much faster.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by heretogetout on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:32AM (#31654915)

Talking is indeed faster but if you're not recording the result in some document to share with others not on the call there's risk that valuable information will be lost.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by seti0Cha on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @11:34AM (#31655871)

I'd say talking is best at straightening out misunderstandings. In those cases there's not necessarily any extra information generated. It's kind of like attaching a debugger to your communication stream.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by bonestamp2 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:34PM (#31657632)

We create a teams chat that is separate from the meeting and document what we agree on in that chat, that way it is documented for everyone who forgets the details by tomorrow morning.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by rhino369 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @11:01AM (#31655371)

Good point

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