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Ask HN: How do run “hybrid meetings” where some are on-site and some are remote?

2 points by fsto ↗ HN
How do you manage to engage both on-site and remote participants in a natural and constructive way? Meetings that are either 100% on-site or 100% remote tend to feel much more smooth in my experience.

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taxcoder
I haven't come up with a good answer for this in my company. My partner and several employees work at one location, and I work with another employee several states away. I've suggested treating meetings as all remote, having each participant involved in a conference call from their desks. Instead, the other office prefers to sit around a speaker phone, which makes for a very difficult meeting to follow.
fsto
Similar to my company’s situation. How do you try to keep the two groups engaged when some are physically in the same room and some aren’t?
taxcoder
On my end we call in individually and treat it as a conference call. Asking for background conversations I hear to be clarified helps. Since the other group is typically about four people, it kind of works, but I am not fond of it.
fsto
Thanks a lot for sharing!