Company Implements 'Meeting-Free Wednesdays' Then Fills Them With 'Sync-Ups' Which Are Just Meetings
MegaCorp Industries has announced 'Meeting-Free Wednesdays' to improve productivity, then immediately filled the day with 8 hours of 'Creative Communication Collaboration Sessions,' 'Strategic Alignment Sync-Ups,' and 'Cross-Functional Touchpoint Discussions.' One employee calculated that the new meeting-free day contains 47 meetings, totaling 11 hours of continuous talking about talking. The company's internal memo stated, 'We've eliminated traditional meetings and replaced them with innovative conversation formats that are definitely not meetings.' Employees report that they now do their actual work on Thursdays and Fridays, which were previously 'meeting-heavy days.' HR says the change has been 'transformative for collaboration,' while employees say it has been 'transformative for exhaustion.'