No, the meetings are not work. The "collaboration" or "learning" this author is not a thing that happens in meetings - it happens when people are working togeth

No, the meetings are not work. The "collaboration" or "learning" this author is not a thing that happens in meetings - it happens when people are working together: something that requires neither meetings nor co-habitation. There are occasions where meetings _can_ be useful, but the vast vast majority of meetings can be replaced with a few emails or chat (in person, or irc, or slack, etc) - if they have any information of value in the first place. This entire article reads like another person who is unable to work without significant handholding, or a person who believes productivity == seeing people in an office, and this is just another article by a person who believes that their personal deficiencies trumps all else.