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How do people like this not get roped into countless meetings? Do workplaces exist in the digital space that actually communicate without a meeting culture?
Yep.
100% remote here -- staff not permitted in the office (5 'hotel' spots and a walk-in desk behind a buzz-door staffed by a rotating helldesk rep to receive deliveries and give/get laptops for repair/re-image/replacement. This from like 400 onsite) unless there's a good reason.
We have a few meetings, but they typically go 15 min or so; CAB meetings, strategy, an hour's status-and-plans that goes long at 30 min, a 'watercooler' meeting for breakfast and random chat, to build the team and get the nerd zoomies out. No one wants to prolong a meeting, and that's awesome. It's an interruption, but they block together what they can so it gets it out of the way, and Monday and Friday are kind-of a bust because it's common for 9x9 'compressed' time workers to take those days off. So Monday and Friday are quiet work-times.
Everything else is handled by a slack-like chat setup, but we light a call if someone needs to show a screen or we need fast chat between many people -- crises and the like.
You should come work here. We have a few spots open but they go fast; and people only leave on retirement (thus the opening today).
They scripted their attendance with python.
I have a standup meeting that lasts 10-30 minutes every morning.
Occasionally I have meetings where we plan, but they’re known about in advance and we can usually get a lot of the work done on the side before hand so we’re “done” by the time the meeting occurs (agendas help).
I can make it through my whole week with less than 3 hours of “being on a meeting call”