Christ they're dumb. Here is a golden opportunity to protect your business and build great PR.

As everyone else is pushing people back to the office, be the champion we're all looking for, run the studies, offer incentives, anything to prove that working remotely is a viable alternative in a modern world.

Then, expand the use cases, it's not just WFH, but working on-site (for companies with manufacturing in different locations), working on the move for managers, emergency preparedness, and, of course, webinar/training.

It's not rocket science, just marketing.

"Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it's really hard," Yuan said, according to Insider. "We cannot have a great conversation. We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call."

Wow, CEO calling their own product shit. Cool.

Zoom CEO says that the only product his company sells is crap.

Imagine being so short sighted as to lambast the main selling point of your own product to the world.

If even Zoom won't use their own product, how are they supposed to persuade other people to?

Translation from BBB (business buzzword bullshit) to English:

CEO wants to look out on his domain and see his minions hard a work in the cube farm. He loves coming to work (because he does not have punch a clock) and want warm bodies to lecture to.

If debate is hindered, it's the corporate culture the bosses fostered. Oops!

What? Remote work is awesome. It can be highly productive and liberating. The CEO of Zoom comes across as the most confounding and paradoxical Luddite. I'm so confused.

CEO tries to kill off own company...more at 5!

No-one really know where Zoom comes from. It just popped up during the pandemic. Since the pandemic is over, Zoom will disappear sooner or later.

For anyone that doesn't get how incredibly stupid this is, imagine Coca-Cola mandates all its workers to drink Pepsi.

And science says that work from home improves productivity, workers health and motivation. Well CEO doesn't mean you're smart.

Seems like somebody is taking a page out of Gerald Ratner's playbook.

I think this is increasingly typical of the C-suite types in most corporations. They are people whose primary credentials are having wealth, connections, and a business degree. They did not start the businesses they run and usually did not work in them previously. So they know almost nothing about the workings of their company, its products, or its market and are arrogant enough to think none of that matters.

CEOs used to earn at least some of their higher salaries by providing long-term strategy and making large scale decisions. Now they just follow advice from the next level down, push for greater short-term profits, and jump to another company when the consequences of their shortcuts and bad decisions start to become obvious to their stockholders. They are mercenaries who are given command of someone else's army and win battles by not caring how many soldiers they lose in the process.

Pffft. Schmuck.

/leopardatemyface

We know that's not true. They know that's not true. But lying for short term gain and corporations go together like peas and carrots.

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