Tackling the corporate scourge of meeting overload

Tackling the corporate scourge of meeting overload
Meeting-clogged schedules make organisations sclerotic and slow. (Image: Getty)
Bloomberg
By Sarah Green CarmichaelIn early 2023, Canadian multinational e-commerce company Shopify declared that it was banning meetings on Wednesdays, limiting 50-person-plus meetings to Thursdays, and – for two weeks – killing any meeting with three or more people. The meeting-free fortnight is designed to be a kind of reboot, after which executives are expected to encourage employees to be choosier about which meetings they schedule and attend. And in an acknowledgement that calendar clutter isn’t the only way to waste time, th...

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