I feel like the hustle culture is more prominent and celebrated these days. But I'm curious to know if there are still companies out there that prefer to keep meetings to a minimum, or none at all, to optimize for autonomy, trust, and giving people the space to do their work in silence.
A few companies that come to my mind now that still work this way are: doist, dnsimple, Cliniko, Calibre, HeadshotPro.
Any others?
theorchid11 hours ago
When I work as a project manager or team lead in a company, it takes me a lot of time at the beginning to convince the founders that I can work without constant communication and that the whole team can do the same. In some companies, I manage to convince the owners of this, in others I don't.
Many business founders are willing to spend entire days on meetings, even though everything can be discussed asynchronously via text, and even faster.
I know that most developers dislike meetings and conference calls, and as a team lead, I consider it my duty to allow them to work without meetings.
When I launch my startups, I always organize the work of the entire team at the very beginning so that it can function without a single conference call. As a founder, I have never needed to call anyone on the team to resolve any issues.
RaulOnRailsop8 hours ago
Love to hear this!
gls2ro14 hours ago
I am not working for them, but I heard about https://hubstaff.com that they have almost no meetings.
Maybe someone who is working for them can confirm or add more details about it.
RaulOnRailsop13 hours ago
ha! I used to work there until 2020. They have almost no meetings because they have all those employee monitoring tools: mouse/keyboard activity tracking, browser URLs tracking, screenshots every X minutes, etc.