Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday

Re:Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday by paulhauggis on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @10:20AM (#7840326)

This reminds me of my last remote job. Every day, we would have. Standup meeting. These are supposed to be 15 minutes, but typically would last well over an hour. On top of this, we would have: planning (4 hour meeting), review (3 hour), retrospective (3 or 4 hours), and the boss decided we weren't having enough meetings..so he added a soical meeting every Friday for an hour. We were all remote and this was a way for us to so somehow become closer as a team.

at one point, I was paid for more time in meetings than work. The only way this didn't happen was when we were putting out fires because mysteriously, we weren't making project goals and upper management was putting pressure on my boss.

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Re:Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday by up_and_up on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @10:46AM (#7840487)

Haha thats hilarious.

I currently work for a fully remote company and it's completely the opposite. We do one weekly status meeting which is usually 20-30 mins. Then project planning/troubleshooting/teambuilding meetings as needed usually around 2-4 hours per MONTH.

EVERYTHING else is discussed/solved very efficiently via IM.

I hope to never work for a company with meetingitus again, big waste of time and resources.

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Re:Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:50AM (#7840909)

Zapier?

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Re:Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday by up_and_up on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:16PM (#7842783)

No, but they look like a cool company.

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Re:Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday by Roboprog on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:17AM (#7840689)

OMG, that sounds like where I work.

It's acceptable to skip a few of the meetings after things inevitably turn into a cluster bomb and somebody has to start writing the actual code.

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