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Codie Sanchez argues that remote work making people happier is a lie
“Some of the research shows, one, higher levels of depression and anxiety with work from home. So I actually think that was a great lie. It was a big, beautiful lie. That sitting in our sweatpants, in our house, on Zoom meetings all day would actually make us h…”
Isaacson: Creative breakthroughs require dense face-to-face collaboration before dispersing
“If you want some bursts of creativity, it helps to have a lot of people actually interacting in real time, face to face, in an intimate fashion, and then you can disperse that creativity, whether it's a group that gets together and starts figuring out how to d…”
Sequoia requires in-person meetings before investing to gauge a company's texture
“At Sequoia, I mean, we take a lot of first meetings over Zoom and during the pandemic when we were only doing meetings over Zoom, you just never got the right texture for the company, the cadence of the, how the company operated, and yeah, we might still take …”
Hertz: Video call latency prevents the neural synchronization needed for empathy
“The jerkiness of our Zoom calls and the, you know, which just kind of doesn't help us, our brains be able to synchronize with each other, which
They need to do in order to feel empathetic and connected.”
Hertz: Zoom interface prevents real eye contact and makes interactions performative
“We don't look at each other when we're on Zoom, typically. Right. You know, our eye lines aren't looking at each other because of the way it's set up, and in fact, all too often we're distracted by the pictures of ourselves on our screen, turning our interacti…”
Tavel: Next-Gen Remote-Native Tools Will Transform Work Beyond Zoom and Slack
“And in a way, like you had technologies like Slack and Zoom That I think facilitated a new way of working, which was the ability for us to be remote, but aren't actually native to the way we are working when you're working remote. And so you're seeing a new ge…”
Godin: Status-Focused Management Prevents Zoom from Being an Effective Tool
“And so I think we're on the cusp of Zoom actually becoming a useful tool, but what is holding it back is status-focused management that wants to make sure there's butts in seats and enforcement as opposed to using it as the peer-to-peer magical tool it could b…”