High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
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High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
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Re: High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
#2Our work culture's obsession with meetings, which is dwindling, it seems, is due in large part to our desire to perform as part of 'productivity theater.' this has mostly been driven up by wfh. but it's interesting to me that so many people focus on performativity vs. output
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#3i personally can't retain any information in meetings, and i've honestly watched meeting recordings back to take notes on important info that i totally glazed over at the time. this wastes a total ~121 minutes on average, based on their estimate of time it takes to refocus after meetings.
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#4Is there a way to stop scrolling hijacking on the sites like this one?
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#5I've also seen a lot of benefit of grouping recurring meetings all in the same time slot daily. I.e. all team rituals from 10-11 am daily.
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#6This reminds me of Alan work culture [1], Alan is a startup with a zero meeting policy and a very strong culture of writing. They check the quality of one's writing during their interview process.
Alan leaders also have other strong ethos like "no managers" and "complete transparency".
I really wonder if these companies are exceptions or if this organisationel model could be replicated more widely. I guess it caters to some very specific personality types.
[1] https://blog.alan.com/bien-etre-au-travail/who-we-are-and-ho...
Re: High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
#7Our work culture's obsession with meetings, which is dwindling, it seems, is due in large part to our desire to perform as part of 'productivity theater.' this has mostly been driven up by wfh. but it's interesting to me that so many people focus on performativity vs. output
I think about this a lot. "Managers" are under pressure to make sure their teams are meeting goals/deadlines/whatever, so they are anxious, so they make efforts to observe and oversee "performance". Seeing people in meetings and diligently "working" makes them feel better about their teams' performance. But what really matters is outcome...which is very difficult to measure for a lot of software teams, and even harder for individuals. The irony is that the efforts to measure/ensure performance, in many cases, actually impede material progress towards the desired outcomes.
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#8At my company we make all meetings optional, this really helps create the right incentives both for hosts and attendees. As a result we have very few meetings, but the ones we have work well. https://www.synura.com/handbook/general/meetings/#all-non-11...
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#9Is there a way to stop scrolling hijacking on the sites like this one?
adblock all the scripts =/
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#10As someone that hates taking a long time to write documents and has similar resistance to reading large technical documents I much prefer to ask my specific questions in meetings. I retain the information much better that way.