Annoying as morning standups are, they are (well, should be) about keeping the team in sync and communicating, not about Big Brother watching you. Companies tha

Annoying as morning standups are, they are (well, should be) about keeping the team in sync and communicating, not about Big Brother watching you. Companies that want to be Big Brother have much more intrusive and insidious ways of doing that. I am a disorganized guy who hates authority and interruptions, and even so I have grudgingly come to realize that (strictly) 15-minute morning standups actually do increase my productivity.