Latest headlines: Chris Gillespie on a mature AV/VC environment, Scott Tiner on how culture determines where employees work and more
April 18, 2023 | Volume: 14 | Issue: 8
Regarding returning to the office or working from home, we often speak of it in terms of technology. But have we thought about it in terms of culture? Scott Tiner thinks we should. He writes about how a company’s culture often determines whether it will return to the office — it’s not up to a singular employee or anyone in AV. #AVtweeps are there to help solve problems, not create them.
Chris Gillespie also writes this time about the “mature AV/VC environment.” What does this look like, and how can you make this environment all it can be? Read more here.
By the way, voting is now open for our 2023 rAVe Readers’ Choice Awards! So make sure to go ahead and get those votes in while you can!
As we think about the current chasm between companies telling people to come back to work and employees saying they want to work from home, it is the culture that will eventually decide what happens. We have several people in our industry who are demanding that “everyone can work from home” and that “the employees will make this choice.” I think that such comments blatantly ignore the culture of the workplace.
Over the past decade or so, I have been rather lucky to have the opportunity to observe and understand the state of audiovisual and videoconferencing environments across various organizations. For the most part, things work pretty solidly. At least for users. But beyond that, most organizations that I have seen have never really taken things to the “next level,” or, while they have taken steps in that direction, it’s not been a huge goal. The problem with the next level, however, is that there is no real consensus on what that looks like.
