[magicalhippo]

Seems very similar to how things are run where I'm at. I've been here 10 years now and I think it's been a very good way to do things for us.

Now that I'm more senior I do get called into more meetings. But still it's usually not more than 2-3 per week and almost all of those are 30 minutes, or an hour tops, and very efficient. Most of the other meetings my boss does and relays info to us through issue tracker or mail/chat. Like you, he spends a lot of his time in meetings.

In some cases he'll forward the invite and let us know he might ask us to join to answer one or two specific questions. In those cases we do just that. While not interruption-free, since we're aware the disruption of the 2-5 minute diversion is minimal.

We do have a longer weekly team meeting where we go through all issues being worked on and upcoming work. This might be an hour or two depending.

We're office-based though, and noticed during the pandemic that some extra follow-up was needed. So my boss would usually do a quick call at the end of the day every other day or so to follow up each of us, and also for the social bit.