{"id":10647,"date":"2021-08-16T09:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2021-08-17T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T12:54:11","slug":"webex-to-limit-length-of-participants-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/webex-to-limit-length-of-participants-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Webex Tests Out Limiting Length Of Participants Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco&#8217;s Webex is experimenting with giving meeting organizers the ability to limit the length of each attendee&#8217;s conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lorrissa Horton, vice president and general manager of Webex Calling and Strategy at Cisco, argued that the company had tested this because it was a huge social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horton explained that at most regular update meetings, where everyone is supposed to have the same amount of time to talk, &#8220;many times certain people in that conversation never get a chance to speak or they&#8217;re given the last 10 seconds.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some may appreciate those ten seconds, because they really do not want everyone to know what they are doing, but many would like to be treated equally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cisco admits that the response to its experiment has not been universally laudable.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ciscos-webex-and-the-most-thoughtful-disturbing-feature-youve-ever-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco&#8217;s Webex is experimenting with giving meeting organizers the ability to limit the length of each attendee&#8217;s conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[255,254],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-work","tag-cisco","tag-webex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10672,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions\/10672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}