This is dumb. My last company didn't allow recording for the most part due to data retention, which is as good a reason as any for me, but my new place does and I don't understand it. Recording a meeting means that the best way for information to be shared is in a meeting, and I fundamentally disagree with that. Most of the meetings I go to could have been an email. Of those, the email could be pretty short. If teams are communicating in smaller, more frequent chunks, meetings, and the recording of them, wouldn't be necessary. Besides, it's not like you can interact with a video, but you can with a Slack thread or email. Don't force recording culture. It's dumb.
I worked remotely for five years before the pandemic, and helped people adjust to being remote since I was seen as an "expert" at doing it when everyone suddenly stayed home. The biggest aspect to my success, I would argue, is that I don't treat it like remote is different. Of course it is, and there is something to be said for being together, in person, but high quality audio and video make for a pretty good replacement for most of the interpersonal interactions from before. So my ritual load didn't change, just the means of participation. We still have daily standup, we still chat a lot, and instead of sitting around a table in the office working, we sit on a Zoom - and we don't record it. It works as well, if not better, than before since people can work the hours they want without the drain of a commute.
This is dumb. My last company didn't allow recording for the most part due to data retention, which is as good a reason as any for me, but my new place does and I don't understand it. Recording a meeting means that the best way for information to be shared is in a meeting, and I fundamentally disagree with that. Most of the meetings I go to could have been an email. Of those, the email could be pretty short. If teams are communicating in smaller, more frequent chunks, meetings, and the recording of them, wouldn't be necessary. Besides, it's not like you can interact with a video, but you can with a Slack thread or email. Don't force recording culture. It's dumb.
I worked remotely for five years before the pandemic, and helped people adjust to being remote since I was seen as an "expert" at doing it when everyone suddenly stayed home. The biggest aspect to my success, I would argue, is that I don't treat it like remote is different. Of course it is, and there is something to be said for being together, in person, but high quality audio and video make for a pretty good replacement for most of the interpersonal interactions from before. So my ritual load didn't change, just the means of participation. We still have daily standup, we still chat a lot, and instead of sitting around a table in the office working, we sit on a Zoom - and we don't record it. It works as well, if not better, than before since people can work the hours they want without the drain of a commute.