My company pushed their in-house version of slack and phased out meetings. Management positions were phased out and production (and wages) rose in direct relation with time that use to be spent in meetings.
I work for one of the biggest companies in Canada. We have a minimum of 4 meetings per day, everyday. The President came in for a ‘town hall q&a’ a few weeks ago and asked what complaints people had about working there (a dangerous question to answer). Someone stood up and said ‘we have too many damn meetings everyday. I have 3 hours a day to get 8+ hours of work done.’ People were shocked he was so blunt, but the president said ‘okay I’ll sit down with management and sort this out’. He forced everyone to turn weekly meetings into bi-weekly meetings, and daily meetings into weekly meetings. He apparently told senior level directors that if they can’t get their point across in 1 weekly meeting, they aren’t efficient enough to work there.
It was like a fucking movie. No one expected any changes, but within a week meeting started dropping off our calendars.
OfficiallyFlip on October 22nd, 2019 at 01:02 UTC »
We’ve been having meetings for our department every week without food.
Just found out last week that other departments have the same meetings, catered.
What in the actual fuck
unbannable4 on October 22nd, 2019 at 01:08 UTC »
My company pushed their in-house version of slack and phased out meetings. Management positions were phased out and production (and wages) rose in direct relation with time that use to be spent in meetings.
PepeSilviaLovesCarol on October 22nd, 2019 at 03:41 UTC »
I work for one of the biggest companies in Canada. We have a minimum of 4 meetings per day, everyday. The President came in for a ‘town hall q&a’ a few weeks ago and asked what complaints people had about working there (a dangerous question to answer). Someone stood up and said ‘we have too many damn meetings everyday. I have 3 hours a day to get 8+ hours of work done.’ People were shocked he was so blunt, but the president said ‘okay I’ll sit down with management and sort this out’. He forced everyone to turn weekly meetings into bi-weekly meetings, and daily meetings into weekly meetings. He apparently told senior level directors that if they can’t get their point across in 1 weekly meeting, they aren’t efficient enough to work there.
It was like a fucking movie. No one expected any changes, but within a week meeting started dropping off our calendars.