Shopify is going to extreme lengths to stop its workers from attending pointless meetings.
This push to keep workers out of meetings is to free up time so they can, according to the company's COO, "get shit done."
But here's the thing about meetings, even "pointless" ones, and especially for a company with a lot of remote workers like Shopify: they give us an opportunity to chat.
Watercoolers are hard to recreate in virtual form, but if they're going to be anywhere, it's in scheduled videocalls — in other words, meetings.
Better mental health has been closely linked to productivity, so perhaps addressing loneliness would be a better use of a company's resources than discouraging meetings.
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