beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
What are you using? Zoom?
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Teams
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Ah, shame as it’s absolute garbage. You can manually pin or spotlight an individual speaker but unless they’ve changed it recently there’s no way in teams for it to automatically track the current active presenter like Zoom can
Why anyone uses Teams is beyond me. It’s complete dogshit.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
No idea
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
That's what my work has chosen , although there are occasional rogue Zoom sessions.Ah, shame as it’s absolute garbage. You can manually pin or spotlight an individual speaker but unless they’ve changed it recently there’s no way in teams for it to automatically track the current active presenter like Zoom can
Why anyone uses Teams is beyond me. It’s complete dogshit.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Same here. Work chose Teams, I expect partly because of the security scares there were about Zoom, early on in lockdown. Never had any problems. We use it for one to one chats, team meetings, presentations/training sessions to hundreds of people.
It works fine. As a mere user, I don't get the hate.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I don't particularly hate Teams, but - in common with a lot of Microsoft's other offerings - it comes with a side-order of soul-tarnishing unintuitiveness.
strung out
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Teams is great - in a large organisation like mine (university with 3,000+ employees) it's vital for meetings, general collaboration and cross-team working on projects.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
face to face is the only way to get stuff done and understood proper. But i have to say i prefer zoom for big team meetings where they go over everything that’s already been sent out as an email, so it’s much easier to check out and read the paper or whatever while they drone on and on, yet you’re also not expected to chip in. It’s difficult to pretend to be engaged in table meetingsAh, shame as it’s absolute garbage. You can manually pin or spotlight an individual speaker but unless they’ve changed it recently there’s no way in teams for it to automatically track the current active presenter like Zoom can
Why anyone uses Teams is beyond me. It’s complete dogshit.
This is completely stupid - they should just sync all devices with time.windows.com
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Or go to source and use [0-9].pool.ntp.org
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
There’s actually a number of advantages for a lot of people in virtual/hybrid meetings and conferences. They’re here to stay and aren’t going away once covid is “over”.
Looby
Well-Known Member
Yeah I do agree. I have lots of meetings with education, health and other agencies. Trying to get everyone in a room together is hugely time consuming and not a great use of resources.
Some stuff needs to be face to face and rightly so but meetings between professionals are fine and much more efficient. We were really on the back foot when we went into lockdown but got sorted surprisingly quickly.
It is isolating for us though, never seeing each other in person. All that informal support we got in the office is gone.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
some may be here to stay but not all. we real meetings in our sector for sure. I had a job interview a couple of weeks ago that i couldn’t have done remotely
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
if you all work in the same place, you might as well have a face to face meeting if there’s a room big enough
Why not?
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
This is one of my big concerns: the isolation will lead to bigger turnover as people get burnt out faster because the informal support is reduced significantly. It also results in a loss of experience and learning. I’ve picked up loads of stuff that newer colleagues have dealt with that isn’t bad by any stretch, but there’s a lot missing in terms of options offered etc. But because they are at home, unless they proactively make contact to ask, there’s none of that idly overheating a conversation and saying ‘ooo have you heard about x or y’? I also worry about how it might impact on the speed at which poor practice is picked up. But I’m an old fogey and I don’t think anyone in social care should exclusively home work. Totally get it for some of the time, but we are social beings, it’s called social care, the clue is in the name!
I agree with this. I think there's a real danger of reducing the relational aspects of what we do to some kind of information sharing. It's a de-theorised, de-political way of working, so mh services, social care, education don't require highly trained and educated people with life experience and the ability to work well with others in complex teams, but it becomes about access to information that can be passed on to others - techniques, methods, 'empowering' information, thresholds met - not relationships that require ongoing reflective thinking and supervision, formal and informal, with experienced managers or peers. Its like this anyway, and will become worse if we let it.
I called a professionals meeting recently and more people turned up than they otherwise might have but it was also very easy for people to not say anything when it was difficult, even when it wasn't difficult there was a lack of to and fro, it was very stilted and lacking spontaneity, and I was left to take the lead right the way through. It seemed to me much easier for action not to be taken when it was needed because it was easy to not take responsibility by just not responding when you're a face in a screen in a little box.
I called a professionals meeting recently and more people turned up than they otherwise might have but it was also very easy for people to not say anything when it was difficult, even when it wasn't difficult there was a lack of to and fro, it was very stilted and lacking spontaneity, and I was left to take the lead right the way through. It seemed to me much easier for action not to be taken when it was needed because it was easy to not take responsibility by just not responding when you're a face in a screen in a little box.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I also agree purenarcotic . Working in education (in a back office capacity, rather than teaching), it's the same. We work so much better, more effectively and responsively, when we able to have some time in a shared space. A lot of weirdness happened in lockdown one when everyone in the operational teams was exclusively WFH, and everything was just much harder to join up.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
My work has decided that everyone should go back to the office from next week. I'll be putting in a request for flexible working to allow me to work the hours I currently do (7.30 - 4) from home
ruffneck23
front left
Boss claims 'lazy and spoilt' work-from-homers just want to 'watch Loose Women'
'This is possibly the most offensive, small minded post I have ever seen.'
metro.co.uk
This is quite interesting and if you go onto linked in and look up the guy the thread is still there and it isnt going down too well and a lot of back peddling going on.
TBF the bloke seems like a bit of a twat and I certainly wouldn't be going to him for a job.
ruffneck23
front left
And is it bad that 30 mins before I mean to finish my wfh day , I crack open a beer (tbf all im doing at the moment is watching training videos)
To be fair, he’s got my numberBoss claims 'lazy and spoilt' work-from-homers just want to 'watch Loose Women'
'This is possibly the most offensive, small minded post I have ever seen.'
This is quite interesting and if you go onto linked in and look up the guy the thread is still there and it isnt going down too well and a lot of back peddling going on.
TBF the bloke seems like a bit of a twat and I certainly wouldn't be going to him for a job.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Tbf I procrastinate at the office as much as I do at home, just in different ways.
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