Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can’t be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom::Zoom CEO Eric Yuan discussed the benefits of in-person work in a leaked meeting.
Ya this guy is toast lol.
Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom
Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/zoom-ceo-employees-return-to-office-2023-8
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vasametropolis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Doing a “Ratner” theguardian.com/…/gerald-ratner-jewellery-total-c…
heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 year ago
The product sucks for work and productivity purposes. It can still be useful for meetings where productivity is not a factor (social, medical, many other situations.)
I don’t really care which teleconferencing software I use but without zoom I would lose access to several medical providers and need to travel a couple hours to them which is untenable.
DrMango@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I gotta say I’m shocked that Zoom is secure enough for use in patient care given how heavily regulated the industry is
ToAllPointsWest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well that was an impressive way to destroy your entire business model
rafadc@hackers.surf 1 year ago
businesswire.com/…/Zoom-Expands-Its-Lease-at-KBS’…
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Hey, I need to expand my lease.
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it is X amount of money
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What if I commit 10 years
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it is X/2
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Deal!
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Oh, he reduced costs and increased footprint. He is a genius!
wsj.com/…/zoom-offices-hybrid-remote-work-1166197…
- Well. Out workers are remote. What the hell do we do with the office?
- Eeerrrrr. Ok let people have fun.
- But we are starting to need ways of saving costs. What do we do?
- The plan was always to return to office.
- Let’s do that, then.
Older than life. A situation changes and somebody whose personal interests are over the groups interests.
Saneless@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Typical corporate.
Upper manager goal is Y (not using the letter before it anymore thanks to dippy boy). But we’re Y -3% this quarter
Solution? Treat workers like shit until it’s Y. Doesn’t matter if it makes them unhappy, they leave, or next year’s results suck. Now now now
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saltesc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, the guy that heads Teams literally said meetings and subsequent overuse of Teams due to ease of making and doing meetings, is a productivity killer.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree. The problem is meetings.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The meetings I’m forced to go to at work almost always have nothing to do with my actual job, but do include the owner telling us how much money the company is making in chart and graph form for 20 minutes, which helpfully reminds me that I’m being severely underpaid.
Yes, I am preparing my resume.
scottywh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And the idiots who schedule many of them…
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
One of the advantages of working from home is you can have the meeting on in the background and get on with some real work. When it comes your time to speak you’ve lost maybe 5 minutes instead of an hour.
Kahlenar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like to many meetings. Can’t do work at a meeting.
uglyduckling81@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can. Have a meeting in Citrix and I happily work while people yabber on in the background.
The real killer is the face to face meetings. My group supervisor now demands anyone in the office on a particular day go into his office for the team meeting. That’s a real time waster.
People online can’t hear us properly standing around in his office. Can’t get work done while standing in there.
Just let me work from home so I don’t have a bunch of people wander over to me to ask stupid questions during the day.
If you want something send me an email and I’ll get to it when I have time. Walking into my space, making me take my noise cancelling headphones off so you can yabber at me and break my concentration is so annoying.
I’m untouchable at home. I work until I need a break, then quickly sort questions and queries, then get back into my groove for another hour or two.
cloud@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
Doesn’t matter what you think, Big techs ceos are laughing their ass off every time their products gets mentioned and reach the frontpage. Purge their ads and remove their visibility
Rambi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Maybe people can just use a different video calling program if the CEO of the company doesn’t like people using it.
MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
a different video calling program
What happened to Skype? Did it just become the basis of Teams?
unsaid0415@szmer.info 1 year ago
man i just spent 30m this morning telling jokes to my remote coworker over slack, I’ve seen him only once in my life, according to this CEO I couldn’t have possibly gotten to know him.
Funny watching the CEOs trying to do the verbal splits, coming up with excuses where it’s just “waah we’re paying for an office that nobody uses :(”
we have nothing to lose but our commutes
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eh, for certain people they definitely are less productive online(unfortunately including me), but I’m sure some others are more productive online.
TTShred@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eric, you need to un-moot
Something_Complex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why tf is his personal fortune still 200b??? Deam what if he’s sabotaging his fortune so that he can keep making way to much money in different projects. Without people freaking out cuz he has 500b, the only what to do that would be in fact to tank a couple of companies in a way that seems not accidental.
NamesArrHard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not sure where you’re getting your numbers. He’s worth 3.4 billion dollars. Unless you’re talking in yen, which would make him worth about 500b yen.
Facebones@reddthat.com 1 year ago
The number of jobs I’ve missed out on and lost exclusively because I’m not normative enough to tell milquetoast jokes around a water cooler with a bunch of people I know two facts about but treat like my best friend numbers in the 100s.
Fuck all these people trying to force the old ways forever just so they can exercise their social capital upon the rest of us.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told employees this month that the company was making the surprising decision to send some workers back to the office regularly because its flagship remote-work product didn’t allow employees to build as much trust or be as innovative as in the office, according to a leaked meeting recording viewed by Insider.
The top reason for the mandate, Yuan said at the August 3 meeting, is that it’s difficult for employees to get to know each other and build trust remotely.
The comments, much like the decision to return some employees to offices, are surprising given the role Zoom’s technology plays in remote work.
The company’s videoconferencing service became so ubiquitous early in the pandemic that its corporate name became a verb describing the act of firing up any video chat to connect with coworkers online.
Amazon recently asked employees to relocate to their teams’ offices or find new jobs.
Zoom’s return to office, at least from Yuan’s comments, appears less strict, as he directed employees who have issues with the policy to apply for exceptions with the heads of their departments.
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chakan2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Leadership realized they weren’t getting the ego stroke they needed virtually. Time to go back to cube hell so this guy can justify his existence.
Grant_M@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
At first, I thought this was an Onion story
donut4ever@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lol. Looking for trouble.
ladicius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ice cream factory urges its employees not to eat ice cream.