Tom Temin Commentary

Seven things I hate about conference calls

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

November 4, 2015 4:31 am

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Thank you for letting me vent. I had three conference calls today. All were with good people, well-meaning people. We were planning conference panels or updates to a document. We accomplished our goals. Yet, how is it we put up with this difficult, tiresome technology that thrives as a caricature of itself? Conference calls feel like a legacy of that long communications era between the end of the Dictabelt and dawn of email. Conference calls live on as an analog tradition everyone hates but for which no one has found a better alternative.

Here is what gets under my skin most about conference calls.

Tom Temin

Tom Temin is host of the Federal Drive and has been providing insight on federal technology and management issues for more than 30 years.

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