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The struggle with implementing the "no-meeting" trend
- A common pitfall is that the unproductive Zoom calls are simply pushed to either side of the meeting-free day. Worse, time-stretched managers sometimes ignore company policy: they see a yawning gap in workers’ schedules on a no-meeting day and set up an hour-long call. Employees, meanwhile, presume the meeting must be important and feel obliged to attend.
- There can be other unintended consequences, too. Meetings can be a surprisingly efficient way of exchanging information. Without alternatives in place, a quick question during a morning catch-up can be replaced by email ping-pong.
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How meetings bloomed
Humans are inherently social beings; our instinct to meet in order to strategize and share ideas predates modern civilization, let alone office culture.
As knowledge work boomed in the mid-20th Century, businesses gradually moved away from command-and-control style ...
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Banning meetings
Some companies have banned meetings, either permanently or for specific days each week.
Many tech-related start-ups, which often employ remote workers in different time zones prioritize efficient asynchronous communication rather than live calls.
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"It’s become too easy to take someone’s schedule away from them. People don’t think – they just click ‘yes’ to the invite"
STEVEN ROGELBERG
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Good meetings, bad meetings
Meetings can enable teams to brainstorm, align thinking and take decisive action, but without clear goals, they lose focus. They often bloat – what should be a quick one-on-one conversation becomes an hour-long call requiring entire teams.
Bad meetings hav...
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Excess meetings
Remote working has only exacerbated the problem of excess meetings, with casual deskside chats replaced by default half-hour Zoom calls. Analysis of employees' meeting invitations at 21,500 global companies by Harvard Business School revealed that although meetings were on av...
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Reform, don't remove
The no-meeting trend is fairly new: there's little concrete data to support whether it works and what gets lost. It’s why most of the discussion around it is anecdotal. However, it seems that without addressing pre-existing issues, an outright meeting ban simply moves the...
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