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VideoCallsThatSell

A collection of 237 issues

To Steal Or Free Dreams?

Here's perhaps a contender for quote of the year. When asked by her daughter why she couldn't have an Alexa like all her school friends, one mother curtly replied; "... because it steals your dreams and sells them". That the woman in question's authorings happen to display ideological alignment to a

The Joy In Seeing A Room For Tidying

Marie Kondo's at it again. The decluttering star launches her latest bestseller bound advice. Among the mass of promo for her new book, one bright spark was a typically insufferable yet expressive columnist with the joyful idea of getting the great lady to tidy up her home office desk. As

Diarised Problem Bombing

Now that, unless you're Remote-only, you're likely to have found yourself sitting at a desk lately in an actual office, you've probably been (re)acquainted with desk-bombing. Where someone can sidle beside you, only to stop and - the horror - try strike up a random conversation with you. I

Vid To Stay

Neat hanging barchart treatment here from the Telegraph broadsheet graphics team last week. Although why they chose the specific ordering eludes me. Nevertheless, the article wrapped around it has a pretty clear message. WFH is still a thing. A London analysis reported via a November Future of Work event suggested

Note That Dyson Moans About Something Else

Billionaire vacuum disrupter James Dyson is naturally a serial-inventor about whom I've blogged on a few times down the years. [Such as this gem of 'wrong-thinking' posted back in 2009.] He makes headlines this month in the land of his birth (he appears rather based in Singapore nowadays) through scathing

Don't Confuse WFH Backlash With Sales Video Call Demise

💼💼💼 My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to receive my unseen cartoons: https://t.co/JNDhrYJMFH pic.twitter.com/WpPxQNhaPr — Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) May 17, 2022 The rumbling crescendo of executive disdain for WFH can seem at times to blast into resounding inescapable uproar. Like the

Hybrid Hub Redesign

During the final quarter of '22, there's an increase in reports of how companies are evolving how they work. Earlier in the year, focus was on grabbing the hybrid dividend to the bottom-line. Namely offloading swathes of expensive office space expected to become, if not already seen to be, redundant.

Job Cull via Video Call

American newshounds NBC see their exclusive Facebook bonfire footage plastered across feeds this week. Above, its screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg. Announcing that because of his over-ambition, 11,000 of his staff are now to be fired. One in eight of his entire workforce. Wonder if he ever saw 2009 Oscar-nominated

Empty Chairs

Quite the phrase du jour. And not related to the swathes of unoccupied desks due to en masse commute reluctance when WFH can continue as an entitlement. Instead, 'empty chairs' is a manifestation of how difficult it currently is in Blighty to recruit. The Great Resignation and work/life balance

Elon Can't Kill The Video Star

The 'tumultuous' takeover complete, the world's richest person looks set to fire half of all Twitter staff. Hot on the heels of sacking the entire Board "for cause" (meaning no golden goodbyes), perhaps garnering less 'shocked' twitterati 'ratio-ing', is Musk's other pronouncement this week. That he's ending WFH. Everyone to