We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon

Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by pizzachan on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:18PM (#31657422)

It also heavily favors the loud and self important who will force their way to the front and dominate the conversation. In an hour long meeting there is much more opportunity to give everyone several minutes to speak and have group discussion and deliberation. Now if your meeting can actually get done in 20 minutes, it probably should have been a phone call.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by ghaff on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:28PM (#31658292)

Well, most meetings are phone calls. Over time, I've seen more and more things default to 30 minutes whether meetings, presentations, or whatever. That's not to say that an hour isn't the right length for certain things, but it's reasonable to default to 30 minutes unless people think more time is needed.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by jimbokun on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:48PM (#31658522)

With so many people working remotely, aren't all meetings basically phone calls now?

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by hinkley on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:49PM (#31660962)

Practically the only think I like about Scrum is that there's a person who is slightly at arm's length to referee these sorts of things. But it's a sort of broken clock scenario.

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