What we do in my fully remote, heavily async business is we first attempt to solve all problems in an async way e.g. email or Slack (most of us have Slack notif

What we do in my fully remote, heavily async business is we first attempt to solve all problems in an async way e.g. email or Slack (most of us have Slack notifications turned off or heavily limited). In the 15% of cases where an issue can't be solved in this way we do a video meeting. Like Bezos' approach this has the effect of informing all the participants about the key issues before we ever meet, so little time is wasted. I also limit my meeting attendees to people who are directly impacted by possible changes - if someone doesn't have skin in the game on a particular issue I don't really care about their opinion, I mean maybe they will have a perspective none of us have thought of, but things are well documented and they can always send an email, they don't need to be in the meeting. There was yet another gripe thread about daily standup meetings that passed through HN a few days ago. They are another waste of time that you can't afford to mess with with when you're async. We just have a Slack channel where everyone posts a bullet summary of what they completed yesterday, what their plan is today, and their availability. These summaries take less than 10 minutes to write and 30 seconds to read. If you want more info on what someone's doing it's very easy to just DM them and ask. I probably get more positive feedback on that process from new employees than anything else we do.