Amazon Wants to Kill the Dreaded Meeting to Discuss the Meeting

Amazon.com Inc. employees will soon have to schlep to the office all week, but they might have fewer boring meetings when they get there.

Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy’s memo targeting corporate bloat promised a purge of “pre-meetings for the pre-meetings for the decision meetings,” which he deemed “artifacts that we’d like to change.” In doing so, the technology giant that employs 1.5 million people became the latest big company to try to reduce corporate bureaucracy, a scourge of the workplace that became more pronounced during a pandemic-induced hiring binge.