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Online Meetings : A Can Of Virtual Worms
Online company meetings have become quite the double edged sword for the corporate overlords.
Many positive things have happened as a result of the ongoing pandemic in the grand game of software engineering and it’s important to remember that when you’re sitting in a Zoom meeting¹, and playing online poker in another window as it helps to keep you suitably expressionless, that it could be far, far worse.
For instance, you could have commuted for hours on end at your own cost and on your own time only to have sat in a crowded room full of people that you’d really rather not be around (and certainly wouldn’t be if you weren’t paid to do so) for further hours on end listening to self-congratulatory meaningless drivel, sorry I mean important company updates, before being forced to eat lukewarm soggy pizza and act grateful for it too.
Although some companies are attempting to lure people back to the office for the most part larger scale events seem to be remaining, thankfully, online with only a small spattering of people in physical attendance².
As a result of this inevitable drift to primarily online attendance the meetings themselves have actually improved immensely.
Now, I don’t mean that the subject material presented there is any more interesting (it’s certainly not) or…
