Do you still use conference rooms at work regularly? (1 Viewer)

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I wonder if this is just my company or a big trend.

2 or 3 years ago, we used conference rooms all the time. Almost every meeting was in a CR. People jockeyed to schedule CR time for their meetings. If you didn't have a CR for every 20 employees or so, it was a major issue.

Now with all of the collaborative meeting software (we use Lync and Telepresence), we never hold regular meetings in CRs. I suppose the TP room is a CR, and we do have large company meetings in a big room, but of the ~30 meetings I have every week I might be in a CR once. 95% of meetings are people on their desk or at home on Lync.

It's funny because our group moved to a different area of the office with no CRs - at the time we were really concerned - but we haven't needed it at all.

Is it the new normal?

 

[DCThunder]

Not where I work. We also use Lync and Skype for small group meetings, but larger meetings are always face to face with some people calling in via Lync.

 

[George Jefferson Airplane]

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[TheIronSheik]

We have about 7 conference rooms in this building and they are almost always full.