Google Meet is one of the tools that has become popular around the world since the pandemic, although many users continue to use it to schedule their work meetings. However, the application had an update and from three people it will no longer be possible to make video calls of more than an hour , at least free .
Individual users can organize free secure video calls with Google Meet for up to 24 hours if they are only two people, but in case they want to make meetings of more than an hour they will have to adhere to a new plan: they can choose the Google Workspace Essentials plan , which has a price of eight dollars or hire Google Workspace Enterprise, where the price will depend on the size of the company.
Why is it important to have shorter meetings?
“There was a transformation where we went from rare video conferencing to very frequent video conferencing and not really knowing the parameters of what the costs and benefits of all of this are,” said Jeremy Bailenson, professor and director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at the University of Stanford to the Washington Post.
Therefore, it recommends that users make video calls effective so as not to tire or frustrate collaborators.
According to Jo Deal, director of Human Resources at the LogMeIn company -in charge of managing programs on business productivity- there are some tips that make this work more effective:
Make sure you summon who you need to summon.
Ask yourself: Should this meeting be an email? Will all those invited actively participate in the meeting?
Minimize screen time.
If you are not speaking or presenting the topic in front of everyone, it is better to keep the camera off so that you do not tire your eyes, nor do you have to be in a position all the time.
Move on.
It’s possible to take calls while walking, make presentations similar to how you would in the office, or even while exercising.
