Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings

Large, long and unproductive meetings have become a scourge of today’s hybrid workplace, prompting companies to try and curtail them. — Image by tirachardz on Freepik

Shopify Inc spent last year cutting costs. Now, it’s cutting meetings.

As employees return from holiday break, the Canadian ecommerce firm said it’s conducting a “calendar purge”, removing all recurring meetings with more than two people “in perpetuity”, while reupping a rule that no meetings at all can be held on Wednesdays. Big meetings of more than 50 people will get shoehorned into a six-hour window on Thursdays, with a limit of one a week. The company’s leaders will also encourage workers to decline other meetings, and remove themselves from large internal chat groups.