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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by dsr_ on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:25AM (#31654824)
Yesterday I had a 1 hour meeting where 3 of the 7 participants needed to attend another meeting after 30 minutes. We reorganized the agenda to hit the issues that they were especially concerned about while they were available, and then did the other things in the next 20 minutes, finishing a little early.

It's not impossible, it just requires a culture of consideration, communication, and prioritization.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by heretogetout on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:31AM (#31654896)
I wonder if that's the key -- maybe it's acceptable to shorten one meeting on your behalf (or at least your participation in that meeting) if the reason you'll miss this meeting is that you'll be in a different meeting. As long as you're in some time-wasting activity, they're satisfied.

I say mostly tongue in cheek...

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by fleddr on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @05:11PM (#31660115)
That's funny if it wasn't true.

"I have to get out of the meeting as I need to work on a task."

A task? Ok, so you can stay?

It fits right into "wow, jealous of your agenda"...when it has some blank spots. The spots you actually do work, but somehow are regarded as slack.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by hinkley on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:47PM (#31660952)
"He's out of line, but he's right."
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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by torvald on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:08PM (#31657291)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
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