I was worried I wouldn’t have anything to write about. Just wait and the internet will provide. Saw this [story] (https://slashdot.org/story/23/01/03/1410245/shopify-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings) and I immediately had hot takes on it but it’s not in the context of is this right or wrong. It’s in the context of how teams work and whether a company as a whole should be making edicts on it.

While it is the right of a company to make recommendations on workflow, I think it’s a dangerous precedent to make. I think what is more important is the results of the workflow, not the workflow itself. The argument can be made that meetings can be a waste of time and efficiency. But if that is what you are really looking at, then I think there are larger time sucks out there.

When you start putting rules and restrictions on how people work, I think you are putting limits on creativity and trust of the staff you have hired. If the team is producing, why do we need restrictions on how that happened.