Remote/Co-located Meetings

Peter du ToitI'm the founder of FutureWork IQ where I spend my time assisting businesses to improve their climate literacy so as to understand the projected impacts from the expanding climate crisis and how to adapt their workplaces in the face of these impacts.

There is one rule when it comes to these hybrid meetings that you simply must live by:

🚩If ONE person has to join the meeting via a video call EVERYONE should join the meeting on a video call, even if they are all in the same building.

So don’t let the co-located team all be in the boardroom and one or two people on a screen. This does not make for an equal meeting experience. The individual/s on screen will need to put in A LOT of extra effort to read the room, taking away from their ability to contribute to the meeting.

So if one person is on a screen, everyone should be on a screen.

So glad that the research now backs this advice.