Stumbled upon this Swedish tweet yesterday and my mind was blown with this insight:

Jag har hittat felet. Tidigare fanns det någon form av friktion (inga lediga mötesrum, alternativt folk var tvungna att resa) för att boka möten. Nu är det … helt fritt. Överallt. Globalt. Släng in alla du kan i ett möte du med! Hej vad det går!

— Troed Sångberg (@troed) February 16, 2021

Essentially the tweet says: last year broke meetings because all the friction in setting up a meeting disappeared. No need to book meeting rooms, no need to travel…

I’d say the worst thing is that “price” of informal chat with your colleagues went up and is now almost the same as inviting a meeting. Chat in Teams, Slack never is quite the same.

I think they might take away my Finnish passport for saying this, but I hope we get to return to our offices sometime soon and work with other people again face to face.