[btilly]

There are other costs to daily meetings - namely when should you have them? If you have them in the middle of the day, you interrupt the schedule. At the end of the day, then the energy you're looking to develop in the meeting goes the wrong direction (plus it inevitably interrupts someone who was in flow and just wanted to keep working). Therefore you want it at the beginning of the day.

But what if people want to start their days at different times? Now they can't!

I feel this a lot right now. Due to unexpected personal circumstances I have wound up needing to go from "provide child support" to "provide financial support". So I just began a job search. But one past employer who would be otherwise reasonable to apply to went onto my list of places to avoid applying to for a while. Why? Because most of their teams have daily standups at around 9:30-10 AM, and there is still rush hour traffic around Los Angeles at that time. I'd like to spend the morning with my kids, get ready, arrive at 11 AM and totally miss rush hour. (Then leave late and miss it on the other end as well!) But they can't accommodate that.

If you have daily meetings, have you discouraged someone from working for you? Quite possibly so. But if my experience is a guide, you probably won't even hear about it.