E-commerce giant Shopify welcomed its staff back from their Christmas holiday last week by announcing a “calendar purge” to give employees more time to work on other tasks.
The changes, which are effective immediately, include removing all recurring meetings with more than two people “in perpetuity,” shoehorning meetings of more than 50 people into a six-hour window on Thursdays, and limiting big meetings to once a week. Meanwhile, Wednesdays will become a no-meeting day and employees have been urged to be “really critical” when deciding whether to add a meeting back to schedules at all.
