My guess: This guy, and all his rich friends have a ton of money invested in commercial real estate. He's putting his own interest before the interest of his company. The more people work from home the better for Zoom, but the worse off he and his rich friends are.

Interesting that Zoom is not making an attempt to build features that increase trust, enable innovation and encourage robust debates in their app. Seems like a missed opportunity.

The amount of "innovation and debate" I've seen during remote meetings is no different than when I used to work in an office. Meetings are either exhausting and dead (when they're the usual bullshit administrative meetings that no one wants to be in and could've been handled via email) or they're fun and engaging (when its something like a working session where the participants want to be there).

This guy is an idiot and, as others in this thread have already stated, he's got ulterior motives beyond "innovation and debate."

I've never seen a CEO this publically against their own business lmao

Seems like the opposite of what they should be saying.

I wish everyone who works at zoom a very fruitful soft quitting.

This is all a method to get people to quit so they don't have to list layoff nor have to pay severance.

Fuck them. Go to the office, but give it your 10% at best. Stall things. Claim lack of motivated leadership if HR makes a stink. Make them fire you and get that bread in the meantime.

everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a zoom call

I'm sorry but are you suggesting hostility leads to innovation? Are you a fucking sociopath?

What a fucking idiot.

Translation: I fucked up and want to beat the employees for my failure

This part is my favorite:

"Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it's really hard," Yuan said, according to Insider. "We cannot have a great conversation. We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call."

Sounds like the issue is people wanting to avoid a talking to by HR for being "uncooperative" to me, but what do I know, I'm not the CEO of a company actively portraying the company's product as bad at its sole purpose of existing.

This guy words his argument as though he's upset his product prevents him from having non-recorded temper tantrums at junior employees.

"Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it's really hard,"

Easy, close the company down.

Zoom needs to implement whiteboards and people need to be issued digitizing pens/tables so they can draw diagrams freely

We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call.

Translation: "I want to be a dick to people face to face, so they can't just turn the camera off and flip a bird towards the screen".

bro has clearly not been in any of my discord chats

Zoom is dead in the water. They cannot innovate and this will cause them to fall further behind. Workers are more productive remote.

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Ah, the ancient art of 'Zoomology,' where gazing at colleagues' pixelated foreheads supposedly squashes innovation. Clearly, the key to groundbreaking ideas lies in the fluorescent lights and watercooler chitchat of the office jungle

So just because he is psychotically social, everyone has to be?

This doesn’t seem to be maximizing shareholders’ investment. I give it three months before he “moves on to the next opportunity.”

Head Accountant: “Sir, our stocks have plummeted to Zero!” Eric: