[rootusrootus]

> There are great reasons to meet and hash things out, but honestly, if everyone's in the office, I've found that it's a green light for lazy managers to work out communication and team build by... having more meetings. Not running them well, not writing any actual decision down, just having a meeting and thinking it's progress.

In my office, this has gotten significantly worse during the pandemic. Death by a million zoom calls, we have far more meetings now than when we worked in the same space. Sure, we had plenty of dumb meetings then, but it has escalated to new heights in the last couple years.

[mr_tristan]

To be honest, I think this is a sign that the company really isn't experimenting, and probably won't figure out how to stay fully remote post-pandemic.

The best thing my company did was host a single "async week". Absolutely no video calls, only async. A lot of communication shifted after that week.

For example, my group has eradicated "round robin" calls, where individuals share their status or whatever. Instead, you create a card on a doc that's mostly a kanban board. That card just links to notes in another doc. So... we basically have an agenda system that: a.) keeps regular meetings on point quickly, and b.) keeps notes of what's been decided. We wouldn't have figured this out without ripping off the band-aid and forcing everyone to do it differently for a week.

[droidist2]

Agree, and at least in-person meetings give you human contact. Zoom meetings are like giving yourself a sunburn but also not getting any Vitamin D in the process.

[rightbyte]

Meetings at my prior place was limited by meeting room scarcity. Ofcourse the amount of meetings explode in such a place!