[z3ugma]

The way we've struck a balance at our company is to only allow meetings in the mornings. In the afternoon, everyone can be off Slack, heads-down, and programming or doing other deep work.

This halves the number of timeslots that are available to have time stolen from you, but allows us to get the empathy and quick resolution that real-time communication enables.

[0xffff2]

I guess it's impossible to please everyone, but I would be miserable with this setup. I'm far more productive in the mornings and have managed to keep most of my meetings in the afternoon so they don't interfere with my productive time. Only allowing meetings in the mornings would probably cut my productivity in half or more.

[bwb]

Ya that is a good one, we did something similar with meetings only on M/T/W, and any outside of that had to be directly product-related and engineer only.