We haven't, although we do have other team members with Portals, I don't think it would be effective for our use case. Most of the conversations are semi-private, so we use the device like we were sharing an office more than having a meeting.
As a team, we use Slack for Chat, Zoom for Meetings and screen sharing, and Slack for one on one video chat. We use slack for quick conversations because its fast to deploy, and you can keep your hands on your keyboard (or mouse).
Oddly, we hop on Zoom all the time for screen sharing but continue to just use the Portal for AV.
"Also, how do you guys handle knowing when you can talk to the other person?"
That's have been easy. If I want to talk to Tom, I just look at him. If he's in a meeting, I can almost always tell. We keep each other muted unless we're going to talk. You can tell from the eyes, or headset, etc. pretty quickly.
For the shared office use case, in particular, it's excellent.
Any way you slice it, I'm glad to see more people in this space, as it can only lead to better things for remote workers. Good luck!
We haven't, although we do have other team members with Portals, I don't think it would be effective for our use case. Most of the conversations are semi-private, so we use the device like we were sharing an office more than having a meeting.
As a team, we use Slack for Chat, Zoom for Meetings and screen sharing, and Slack for one on one video chat. We use slack for quick conversations because its fast to deploy, and you can keep your hands on your keyboard (or mouse).
Oddly, we hop on Zoom all the time for screen sharing but continue to just use the Portal for AV.
"Also, how do you guys handle knowing when you can talk to the other person?"
That's have been easy. If I want to talk to Tom, I just look at him. If he's in a meeting, I can almost always tell. We keep each other muted unless we're going to talk. You can tell from the eyes, or headset, etc. pretty quickly.
For the shared office use case, in particular, it's excellent.
Any way you slice it, I'm glad to see more people in this space, as it can only lead to better things for remote workers. Good luck!