[Tiktaalik]

A big problem with the pivot to WFH is that meeting sizes were no longer bound by the physical size of a room.

The result was that meetings could explode in size to dozens of people as anyone and everyone vaguely related to an issue was pulled in.

Now I've heard some say that that's not a big problem because people can "work" on other things while being present in the meeting waiting until the small moment when they might be needed/relevant/useful, but I cannot believe it is efficient and good to have a bunch of people vaguely distracted and not engaged in either their work or the meeting.

IMO whether wfh or present in the room, people need to be really disciplined about meeting size and keeping at the smallest possible size of totally engaged persons.

[Gigachad]

My company semi regularly runs a company wide meeting with over 100 people in it to share announcements that aren’t relevant to any employees in my country. The whole thing could be a newsletter and be just as effective without taking an hour from every employee.