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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 problem elsewhere.
The goal isn’t to eliminate meetings, it’s to eliminate the bad ones. You need to do the hard stuff – changing meetings and the ecosystem in which they sit so they’re more effective. Just banning them on an afternoon isn’t enough.”
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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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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"
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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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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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