[hinkley]

Standups tend to be held on purpose in places where it's socially awkward or physically difficult to bring a chair. If you can't stand for 15 minutes then carrying a chair is probably right out.

I know some feminists, I know some people with 'invisible illnesses', and I know some people who are both. There's an interesting degree of overlap in concerns and complaints for the two groups, and the intersectionality makes for some interesting commentary.

If hosting a meeting in a location where the women's restroom is on another floor veers into discrimination, if starting every meeting with, "Gentlemen... and Susan" is bad, then surely holding a daily meeting at a location without chairs creates the same type of concerns. Especially now that we include microaggression as hostile behavior.

[mellosouls]

Yes I agree - that's pretty much my concern with the concept; although I've only really experienced stand-ups in normal offices in accessible environments, your description highlights the potential for it to be even more exclusionary.

[hinkley]

Happily my current team contains remote workers, so even before covid, 'standup' consisted of at least two rooms of people staring at a screen or conference room phone. I haven't had to stand for five or six years.

Also the flip side of the "some people can't do thirty minutes" is "some people could do six hours". Trying to use gravity as a timer does not work on endurance athletes at all. And they often have partial immunity to long, drawn-out activities. An alternative mechanism to control for time would be less problematic all around.