Earlier this week, the Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify announced that it's conducting an internal "calendar purge" and nixing all recurring meetings with more than two people "in perpetuity." On top of that, it's also banning any meetings of any kind on Wednesdays, while encouraging workers to decline additional new meetings and remove themselves from large chat groups.
And the best part? Shopify isn't alone. Over the past couple of years, more and more tech companies have implemented no-meeting days in an effort to free up employee schedules and boost productivity. Facebook parent Meta adopted the practice in 2020, as have other big firms like Atlassian and Twilio.
The trend has been picking up in tech and beyond for the past few years, and for good reason. A recent study from MIT found that companies that banned meetings three days out of the week experienced a whopping 73 percent increase in productivity.
Let's hope this catches on!
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