The new world of hybrid work, and the next generation of smartphone users

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🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hybrid work is here to stay, but some big changes are needed to make it work.

That was the message from Microsoft this week as the tech giant presented the results of a new study showing a disconnect in the perceptions of productivity between workers and leaders at companies around the world.

Meanwhile, the number of meetings for many workers has soared since the beginning of the pandemic, in what appears to be the new normal at many companies. But there has also been a significant rise in multi-tasking during those meetings, as distractions threaten to undermine communication and productivity.

That's our first topic on the GeekWire Podcast this week, as we go over some of the takeaways from Microsoft's study and preview the upcoming GeekWire Summit, where the future of work will be a recurring theme.

Then we turn to the next generation of smartphones, and to the next generation of smartphone users. John Cook provides an update on his efforts to ensure that his 12-year-old adopts his first smartphone in a healthy and sustainable way, and offers Todd Bishop some tips for a parallel situation in my own household.

Finally, we talk about John's initial experience with the iPhone 14, his first new smartphone in several years, and spend a little time doing some remedial tech support in the process.

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0:00.0	Microsoft found that the number of weekly meetings is up 153% versus at the start of the pandemic for the average Microsoft Teams user.
0:09.7	At the same time, about 42% of meeting attendees are multitasking by sending email and other messages, and they think that understates it.
0:18.7	I think this is very representative of a lot of companies, including ours.
0:23.7	Yeah, I'm sorry, Todd. What were you saying? Because I was checking slack.
0:33.9	Hello and welcome to Geekwire from Geekwire.com in Seattle. I'm Todd Bishop.
0:38.4	And I'm John Cook. We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in tech, business, and innovation.
0:45.7	What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show. We talk about some of the biggest stories in the news or the things that we've been doing related to technology lately.
0:53.7	And coming up later on, we both have been out there buying new smartphones.
0:58.0	So we've got some insights to share.
1:00.0	Excited to share my tips and everything I've learned with the iPhone 14.
1:04.0	And not only that, but I want to hear how it's going so far in your family, which is the real question.
1:09.0	Because I'm about to make the same leap with a kid
1:13.9	who's a little bit younger than yours, and I'm concerned about it, so I want to talk about that.
1:18.2	I'm here to give great parental advice to you, Todd.
1:21.6	First, John, there's a chill in the air today.
1:25.1	It's getting to be late September, and it is almost time for the
1:29.6	Geekwire Summit coming up October 6th and 7th in Seattle. If you want to check out the full
1:34.4	agenda and purchase tickets for either in-person or online attendance, you can go to
1:39.4	geekwire.com slash summit. John, this event over the past few years has been planned and organized by our team at
1:47.8	Geekwire very differently than it was in the past. And it plays into some news this week for Microsoft
1:53.5	about the nature of work and how work is changing. I've been thinking a lot about this. In the past,
1:59.5	we would just be in the office, overhearing things, shooting the breeze,
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