Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says
by red-iron-pine on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:12AM
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I been saying for years that Teams is worse than Slack -- glad I'm not the only one.
> The lack of basic normal-ass chat rooms in a “team” pushes everything into 1-1 chats and chats attached to meetings
Exactly.
The big killer is being able to pop into a team's room and say "hey tell me about VLAN X" and get an answer from someone. or even just figure out who to ask. with teams that's much harder, you have to play the "find the right person to ask" game, and the visibility is poor.
> (that Teams horse-shit isn’t better for in-office workers, either)
Teams is fine if you need a IM client for people who are in cubes on the other side of the office and integrates with the Office suite. but for distributed team use it's garbage.
> The lack of basic normal-ass chat rooms in a “team” pushes everything into 1-1 chats and chats attached to meetings
Exactly.
The big killer is being able to pop into a team's room and say "hey tell me about VLAN X" and get an answer from someone. or even just figure out who to ask. with teams that's much harder, you have to play the "find the right person to ask" game, and the visibility is poor.
> (that Teams horse-shit isn’t better for in-office workers, either)
Teams is fine if you need a IM client for people who are in cubes on the other side of the office and integrates with the Office suite. but for distributed team use it's garbage.