Oh god this reminded me of something I heard touted while I was studying for my PMP exam
This was when covid was a thing people cared about and we were saying WFH was the new normal. One thing PMs were obsessed with was “bringing the open space office culture to the home”
One way that was proposed to do that? Have an all day meeting where everyone joins in and anyone can talk, like they’re in the office.
A friend of mine works in a wicked neurodiverse, geeky company. They telecommute from all over and have a virtual campus with proximity audio and rooms you can move your little character to encourage the spontaneous conversations that happen IRL. He said it really worked for him. He demoed it for me and it was adorable, pixel art, iirc.
I suspect it was https://workadventu.re/ because IIRC they self-hosted–my friend showed me the mothballed, just-moved-off-of version, so he wouldn’t run into co-workers. But, I could be wrong.
That sounds good on paper, but the more I think about it by applying it to the current team dynamics at my work, I feel like within a week, nobody will be showing up to the open zoom meeting. We’ll likely use the first hour and a half for our regular team sync up, then nobody will re-join. If anyone has a question or wants to say something, they’d just post in the slack channel.
Oh god this reminded me of something I heard touted while I was studying for my PMP exam
This was when covid was a thing people cared about and we were saying WFH was the new normal. One thing PMs were obsessed with was “bringing the open space office culture to the home”
One way that was proposed to do that? Have an all day meeting where everyone joins in and anyone can talk, like they’re in the office.
A friend of mine works in a wicked neurodiverse, geeky company. They telecommute from all over and have a virtual campus with proximity audio and rooms you can move your little character to encourage the spontaneous conversations that happen IRL. He said it really worked for him. He demoed it for me and it was adorable, pixel art, iirc.
The all day meeting idea sounds like hell.
Was it Gather? My team uses that, it’s great.
I suspect it was https://workadventu.re/ because IIRC they self-hosted–my friend showed me the mothballed, just-moved-off-of version, so he wouldn’t run into co-workers. But, I could be wrong.
Extroverts don’t believe in introverts.
That sounds good on paper, but the more I think about it by applying it to the current team dynamics at my work, I feel like within a week, nobody will be showing up to the open zoom meeting. We’ll likely use the first hour and a half for our regular team sync up, then nobody will re-join. If anyone has a question or wants to say something, they’d just post in the slack channel.