Workers are being overloaded with too many apps and chat services | TechRadar

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• AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At the bank where I’m working at we have MS Teams, Webex, Skype and Symphony for chat and videoconferencing. They’re paying for all of them + a bunch of other useless software licenses, but at the same time the top management is still wondering how they can reduce costs 🤔

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can I have Visual Assist to code faster and better?

    No it’s too expensive.

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    • AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t you know that the only way we can afford that is to fire a few people first? smh

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Similar situation here for the last couple years with chat and meeting apps, plus file store app, document app, etc. We are finally ditching everything extraneous. Can’t happen soon enough. Having to check 4 different apps for missed messages is insane.

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• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yea I could see that, I’m the head of IT for a location in my company and a staff of ~900 utilizes around 100 different applications at my site alone. Add up all our different apps throughout the org and that probably triples even though we’ve been attempting to standardize for nearly a decade.

  Keep in mind each of our sites operates what would normally be 3-7 separate businesses with their own IT but in our world one IT runs it all. (Casino IT here)

  I’d say workers are overworked more than they’re over-apped

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get messages in voicemail, email, Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Dynamics, and Teams. It’s a little much. I choose to prioritize Salesforce, email and Jira. Slack when I think about it. Dynamics and Teams can reach out to me in email if it’s important. I never check voicemail.

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My chat window is nearly always in the background and on mute. The only notifications I get are for meetings. Emailing me is a surefire way for it to get seen at the beginning or end of a workday.

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• Fades@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It slows the fuck outta my pc as well. Netskope, and a billion other monitoring and control software like fuck off I actually red that processing power/resources. What a fuckin ridiculous waste

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I swear… I struggle to find my way back to conversations… did I hear XYZ over email? slack? Was it in a Google doc? Some comment in a Google doc? Wiki page? JIRA ticket? Intranet article?

  Okay I’m kidding I never read the company intranet.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We did a project a while back where it was voted to keep announcements and info to the intranet page. This has since slipped up a bit… With more and more managers chosing their own approach

  Still, we just have email, slack, teams and our itsm tool of course. Is preferably drop teams, but it’s impossible to do so in a Ms ecosystem. Everyone thankfully uses slack primarily though.

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  • Fades@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FUCK teams, holy shit they must try to make it trash. It’s slow as fuck and if you leave it open on a mac at least it will just stop working at some point and need a restart. The fuckin iOS app can’t edit messages yet but I can delete them (sometimes). If you try to use the quick share feature it works unless you’re trying to share something from iOS to yourself in which case the screen comes up but the send button is perma greyed out

    I could go on and on, FUCK MS TEAMS

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    • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      mac

      Yeah it’s for people working though?

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    • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The New Teams™ is much better about resource utilization (on pc anyway) - like by 60% both active (video conference) and whilst idle (background).

      Not trying to simp for MS or anything, the previous version was a shitshow. It really did everything my company needed for HIPAA compliant communication, but damn, did it suck ass doing it. New Teams is supposed to be the default for all instances March '24.

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To move past this, business leaders must closely examine the pain points of how their employees connect in hybrid and remote work environments so we can improve the clarity and quality of communication in our organizations.

  “Business leaders” don’t give a rats ass. Whatever ticks the boxes is good for them. You could present them with a heap of dog shit that communicates to you by having the smell be blown at you. If it ticks the boxes, they’ll buy it.

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• QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Email, Teams, Slack, and Whats app is what we use mostly. Slack only because my Regional boss hates Teams (and rightly so). Problem is my site heavily uses Teams so now I have to use both.

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