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Ask HN: Could your company operate without meetings. Why or why not?
I totally get the value of meetings, but I've been running into companies that have different operating structures lately and wondering if there are companies out there that just don't have meetings. Curious to know what these hypothetical companies do and how they manage.
- markus_zhang 5y agoWe can not survive without meetings. A lot of things have to sort out in a task force group and a meeting is way more organized than a random channel.
- mbrodersen 5y agoMy company has very few meetings. I might attend a meeting once or twice a year. One of the reasons why I am still working there. In my experience the more meetings a company has, the less effective/productive a company is. And I like getting things done.
- mod 5y agoThe company I own has a meeting less than once a year. We're at about 15 months right now. It's a bar. Not all companies have or need a lot of meetings, but maybe it's more relevant to your line of work. I'm sure there's great variation in tech, too. I was a web dev and one company met every day, one met every couple of weeks. Both functioned well.
- muzani 5y agoHow do you define a meeting? Would a conversation between two work people count, because that's the usual definition. Normally when you cut off a block of synchronous communication time, it just ends up as a trickle of questions coming in all day with the answers coming in a few hours later.
- mod 5y agoI do not think a conversation between two work people count, no. Not at a bar, for sure. There's constant communication between work people. A meeting is when I get everyone together to go over big-picture type things. Making plans, changing menus, correcting problems, assigning tasks, positive feedback, training for new systems.