This is actually quite common for loads of companies. I worked in a startup that made the developers have a pretend meeting so we looked like "we worked together", I've worked in agencies where we spent hours of dev time setting up cable tidies around the office to look "professional" to a corporate client. In fact, I've seen these kind of faked interactions at every company I've ever worked at. I've laughed at them a number of times, and I'm not convinced that they actually work, but I've seen a lot of smart devs and business-savvy owners pull this shit, so it must have worked somewhere, right?
Anecdotally I've seen more well established companies looking for investment move entire floors of people into another floor for 6-7 hours to give the appearance of busy hardworking w/e
I remember that we didn't even plug the phones in.
these people were being paid £55k (a lot) each, to basically look pretty.
seems like a massive waste of man hours to me- but, I suppose I'm a sysadmin not a sales/CEO
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This is actually quite common for loads of companies. I worked in a startup that made the developers have a pretend meeting so we looked like "we worked together", I've worked in agencies where we spent hours of dev time setting up cable tidies around the office to look "professional" to a corporate client. In fact, I've seen these kind of faked interactions at every company I've ever worked at. I've laughed at them a number of times, and I'm not convinced that they actually work, but I've seen a lot of smart devs and business-savvy owners pull this shit, so it must have worked somewhere, right?
Anecdotally I've seen more well established companies looking for investment move entire floors of people into another floor for 6-7 hours to give the appearance of busy hardworking w/e
I remember that we didn't even plug the phones in.
these people were being paid £55k (a lot) each, to basically look pretty.
seems like a massive waste of man hours to me- but, I suppose I'm a sysadmin not a sales/CEO