There is a phenomenal amount of time wasted at work just socialising other than in controlled environments such as call centres perhaps. Eliminating that will probably offset a good part of the effectiveness lost through damage to learning and cooperation.
That damage however will increase withe the increase in the proportion of people working remotely who have never met or spent personal time with their colleagues. That suggest to me that a hybrid is optimal, in which teams get together once week/month or whatever.
I've a pension trustee board meeting next week using Teams - this has been the way for 18 months now.
I thought it was working fine, but now I think it probably has weakened the process a bit. The basic bureaucracy of which there is a lot works OK but that 10 or 15 minutes we used to have before the meeting started, where the ice was broken, the lunch break, and the drink/meal afterwards where we would review the discussions of the day, were actually quite useful as part of the process for investment and policy decisions.
Last edited by: Manatee on Sun 12 Sep 21 at 10:44
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