Zoom Will Soon Make It Obvious If You're Late To Your Next Big Meeting (techradar.com) 16
Zoom is rolling out a number of new updates for its video conferencing software and one of them might finally encourage users to ensure they're on time for their next big meeting. TechRadar reports: According to a new blog post from the company, Attendance Status makes it easier for organizations to streamline the start of their Zoom Meetings by allowing meeting hosts and co-hosts using its Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar integrations to view who has accepted or declined a meeting invite. However, this new feature also gives them the ability to see whether everyone invited to a meeting has joined. If you're used to arriving earlier for video calls, you should be fine but for those that try to slink in unnoticed later on in a meeting, your boss or manager will now be aware of your absence, so tread carefully. You'll also no longer be able to use the excuse that you had to update your Zoom client as Zoom recently added a new automatic update feature for Windows and macOS that ensures everyone in a meeting is running the latest version of the company's software. Zoom is also rolling out other new features, such as the ability for users to select multiple people to control the movements of slides in a presentation. They've also "added more options for creating polls including ranked responses, matching, short and long answers and even fill in the blank," adds TechRadar. "Finally, Zoom is adding additional watermark settings to its software to help organizations and individuals get the most out of their recorded content and avoid distracting watermarks."
Useless (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: Useless (Score:2)
And if you're so useless that your boss doesn't notice that you're not there unless some software screams it in their face, you should also probably tread carefully.
Why would anyone judge their worth by how useful they are in the meetings they're invited to? You clearly don't work in an office? Holy crap you need to drop that mentality, it's going to lead to stress and depression.
I could show up late to at least 9/10 meetings I'm invited to and absolutely nobody would notice. That's just how meetings work most places. Shit man, most meetings I can actually contribute to I can show up late just to flex because they need me. Not that I'd do that just to feel good ab
I can see this feature abused (Score:2)
There are those "all-hands" stupid meetings where nothing of value is lost if you join late, if you even join at all.
However, big bosses seem to have an attendance fetish regarding this type of meetings, and now they can track you down?
Just wonderful.
Yeah, nah (Score:3)
Not sure alienating a lot of users to keep a small number of user happy is a long term winning strategy.
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Looks like Zoom has decided to take sides in who they see as customers.
Their customer is the one who sends them money. Duh.
average workers who have better things to do with their time than to arrive early to meetings
You don't have to "arrive early". Just be on time. Showing up late is disrespectful and a waste of everyone's time.
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Showing up late is disrespectful and a waste of everyone's time.
While this may have been true in centuries past, in the modern world it is not. The best strategy is to ALWAYS be 5 or 10 minutes late, and if the meeting is already in progress then there was no actual need for you to be there and you should leave immediately. If your attendance was required then all the others would be waiting for your arrival.
This has the beneficial side-effect that the slippery-shit calling the meeting will not invite you anymore!
/Oblg. Day in the Life of a Software Engineer (Score:2)
I guess this guy [youtube.com] is boned. /s
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... and Google Meet was the only one that i found, a few years ago when i looked, that would work in a Firefox browser running on Linux (the only OS i personally use, though i will use others for employers and clients per their request if they provide the hardware).
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does the automatic update work on Linux when the present copy is installed by root and you never use root to use Zoom?
Well... now. (Score:2)
Well... now I'm always going to sign in late.
[Just kidding; I don't attend meetings and definitely don't use Zoom.]
Just gonna leave this here. (Score:2)
Not my work, but this looks handy:
https://github.com/buetcse17/Z... [github.com]
Switch to an open source videoconferencing tool (Score:2)
Galene even runs on a home router, perfect for in-home use, so your babycam videos never need touch the internet at all.