Its just inefficient to be using a building and requiring people to travel for what does mostly amount to sitting on your own on teams calls anyway.
Absolutely agreed, that’s why it is usually best to try and get the team together on agreed days - having a couple a week allows for flexibility, but also makes it likely you get critical mass
I work with the data analysis guys in a large UK public-sector organisation and yes it can be very useful to be talking about the significance of different data sets, how data could be collected, how measurement can be improved - just to chew this stuff over. It can also be very useful for new team members, when they are in their first few months to get to know the rest of the crew and to feel they can ask questions in a natural way, not feeling that they are being annoying by cranking up a Teams call or chat.
Ii'm a big old fan of Teams and collaboration software in general, but face to face interaction can definitely be better in some circumstances. Yes - I'm also a big fan of being able to work from home a couple of days a week
If you want something a bit different, I’d recommend Life On Earth. This was the first of the Attenborough ‘big’ documentaries and broke the mold. It is perhaps more scientifically rigorous than the the later series - more aimed at explanation than spectacle, but fantastic imho
Quite a good demonstration of the limitations of deep-fake AI. You just know after a minute or two that this. isn’t Ryan Gosling, or if it is - that he is being held hostage
It’s a weird one isn’t it.