[mr_toad]

I pretty sure that Teams has tanked productivity in some offices. It used to be that arranging a meeting required finding a physical space. Now some people are spending their days in back-to-back teams meetings and never get any actual work done.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

The counter to this is that you can actually have a 5 or 10 minute teams call which was all that was needed to resolve the issue / answer the question / or whatever the meeting was about. Whereas, if it was a physical meeting in a booked room then it would easily expand to fill 30 or 60min or whatever time the room was booked for.

I see this myself. I get a teams call with a manager and a few others, get something sorted and then end the call. Boom. done. The same in a physical meeting would have been a huge time suck.

Having said that. I like being in the office because there are tons of coffee room and hallway conversations that would not have happened if WFH, but were actually really beneficial to keeping everyone informed about whats happening.

[chubot]

People used to have phone calls for this! It was on the way out even 15 years ago, but a simple telephone call can get people unblocked pretty efficiently

[Tabular-Iceberg]

But then Teams will only let you book calls that start and end at the hour and half hour, making everything either back-to-back or with gaps too long for breaks and too short for focus work.

Teams goes out of its way to create colossal amounts of waste by design. Cui bono?

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

Teams does have the same time booking quanta as physical rooms, but (at least in my experience), the expectation and norms around a teams call is to end when your done and sign off. Whereas in a meeting room you get the "ok, so that's resolved. We have the room for another 25minutes, so what else is going on with everyone?" kind of vibe and we all stay there for the full time block.