Are your hybrid meetings doing more harm than good? New survey finds many of us 'forget' about remote…
- Hybrid meetings can leave remote workers feeling excluded, Jabra study finds
- Unsuitable and dated setups cause regular meeting delays and technical failures
- Better meeting room kit and clear meeting purposes could improve engagement
Around half of remote participants say they’re forgotten, talked over or excluded during hybrid meetings, a new study from Jabra has revealed, indicating that hybrid in-person and remote meetings might not be as effective as we’d thought.
The issue is particularly evident when multiple participants are in a physical room, with others joining online. But more than that, women (16%) and junior workers (26%) are more likely to feel they’re being excluded.
But it might not be the concept of hybrid that’s at fault – Jabra argues that dated tech is making it hard for all participants to have equal visibility, and that poor tech is only amplifying existing cultural issues around visibility instead of creating them.
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