Work Shift: How Shopify Culled 320,000 Hours of Meetings

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Our story last month on Shopify’s plan to purge meetings from employees’ calendars resonated with many readers, who find themselves in wall-to-wall Zoom calls most days with little time for focused work or catchups with colleagues. The e-commerce company said it would end all recurring meetings with more than two people, reup a “no-meeting Wednesday” policy, and limit big (50+) meetings to one six-hour window on Thursdays.