1 year ago

Editor’s note: Today marks the launch of Tech Works, a new monthly column by longtime New Stack contributor https://thenewstack.io/author/jennifer-riggins/ that will explore workplace conditions, management ideas, career development and the tech job market as it affects the people who build and run the software the world relies on. Your first response was probably “Too [insert expletive of choice] many,” followed by shock at how many hours you actually do waste in meetings.

Calling meetings a bug, not a feature, the mandate is to cut any recurring meetings with three or more people.

For my inaugural Tech Works column, let’s figure out how to have fewer, better meetings.

Some teams, she continued, also create best-practice checklists for remote meetings versus hybrid meetings versus co-located ones.