1ºRob French it has been proven to be factually true that the lockdowns did not work, neither do most masks. All did more damage to the mental health of Americans and the mental and academic health of our children. You are not forced to do anything as you can quit. But don't take my word for it, read the recent studies by Johns Hopkins University. We were all lied to and that is a scientific fact that the left will not admit to. No it's going to cost you all at the ballot box later this year and in 2024. All of us that got the vaccination and wore the masks to do our part and be sensitive to others were duped and now everyone will suffer the long term consequences.
2ºCNN thought that they would reach 30 million viewers on CNN plus because they thought they had almost 30 million CNN super fans. Now that CNN plus has not even lasted a month I don't think we should trust a company that gets its projections so grossly wrong.
"Financial projections were based on internal CNN+ research that assumed CNN+ could one day attract nearly 30 million global subscriptions from a total addressable market of roughly 72 million people.
Executives bucketed CNN+'s potential audience into three groups, with various models of overlap:
29 million "CNN super fans."
24 million "news and non-fiction SVOD (subscription video on demand) fans."
36 million "global news consumers" (people who already paid for a news subscription).
CNN+ research estimated that 70% of CNN+ subscribers could be bundled with HBO Max over time."
https://www.axios.com/cnn...b8ea2c725e.html
3ºI argue that "groupthink ideas" just appear more satisfyingly to the groups that spawned them. While virtual meetings protect us creative types from the homogeny and compromise forced on us in person.
Working remotely and especially not having older blander people reigning me in and "looping in" 20 other people with different objectives allowed me to run my own ideas. Those types aren't always thrilled, but all my initiatives have had positive responses, and I've never felt so fulfilled by my work.
Though, probably all they see and report on surveys is that I don't participate in *their* groupthink ideas. With their innate sense of traditional/bureaucratic superiority, they think that not being able to rope me in to pretending to harmonize with them is a weakness of not meeting in person. I think they also aren't able to feel 'team' satisfaction when I run my own idea completion.
Whereas recently, a suggestion I was pressured into making during a zoom while everyone was talking at me turned out to be very unsuitable for the project. After tons of work, I got our VP to cancel it, and now I'm redoing it with methodology I used successfully in another area. I'm violently allergic to groupthink and forced brainstorming. I just end up doing the professional equivalent of vomiting on the floor.
TLDR: Remote work starves groupthink. Groupthinkers assume groupthink ideas are innately superior.