The phone is dying
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- Bennn
I lost the count of how many things are dying ;-) but in the series of Ben Presents Stuff that are Dying™, here's a new dying thing: The Phone.
My phone is collecting dust at work, i work in a 2000+ employee company and since a few years the use of phone is going down every year. We're communicating by emails mostly and by Google Chat in Gmail. People are now using text messages so much that we're slowly losing the need of using a phone.
It's weird cuz often its way quicker and more clear to phone someone at work than embarking in a series of 6 emails over the course of 2h to 1 full day to get a simple info when it could take 2min on the phone. Tech revolution?
How many time are you using a phone in a normal week? For my part, pratically never... I phone my mom and thats about it.
Funny cuz we still call our devices "phones" but we're not phoning anymore.
- Bennn
- sarahfailin2
I use my phone for calls many times every day.
- you didnt!!1Bennn
- I rarely use e-mails for internal staff problems (I'm a programmer). Call or visit their desk, usually.section_014
- ^ same with meetings with other devs. Nothing like the days of endless "Re:re:re:re final design" e-mails.section_014
- mort_0
"We're communicating by emails mostly and by Google Chat in Gmail."
- Tried Slack?
- I'm not the one who will push a new app in a company as big as the one i'm in ... changing stuff takes years over here, its a big boatBennn
- i don't see any reason why you couldn't start an initiative to at least use slack for the small group(s) you're in and work with.kona
- believe me, its an impossible missionBennn
- Same at my company Bennn. By the time they get around to adopting a technology, the rest of the world has moved on.monospaced
- I’ve managed to get it renamed Slag at one place I work.MrT
- exacctly monoBennn
- prophetone1
we be slacking...
- DRIFTMONKEY1
I haven't had a desk phone is 5+ years.
- imbecile0
slack / discord
though landline telephony still has superior sound quality over cellular and voip
- kona0
communicating via email and chat is rather silly as there's just too many nuances with email and it's hard to convey and discern email tone. plus, trying to give feedback or a critique through email is absurd.
we're a rather large corp and we use a combination of slack and skype. it's hard to believe any company large in size doesn't have some kind of video-chat type solution.
i don't have a desk phone but i do call via slack or skype multiple times per day.
emails are purposefully kept short, and if any larger discussion is needed it's either handled by a phone call or meeting.
- drgs0
In order of preference for me:
1. In person
2. In chat
3. Email
4. Phone- I guess the phone is the least "visual" communication tool, some things are impossible to convey over the phonedrgs
- Fuck the phone, let it diedrgs
- WUPHFDRIFTMONKEY
- Phone for prearranged chats can be really useful if you're working remotely. Receiving unscheduled calls is just way to disruptive, in work or out.mort_
- monospaced0
Lots of video chats, Google hangout chats and email. Phones are used for the same thing when not at the desk. Desk phones and phone calls are pretty much dead.