Shopify Threatens Workers with a $1,600 Price Tag for
Pointless Meetings
The
company’s new internal tool is part of a push to boost productivity by
removing a projected 322,000 hours of meetings this year.
Shopify, an e-commerce platform, is putting a price tag on pointless meetings. The company is now charging employees $1,600 for each meeting that is deemed to be unproductive.
The new policy is an attempt to reduce the amount of time that employees spend in meetings. Shopify believes that many meetings are unnecessary and unproductive, and that this policy will help to free up employees' time so that they can focus on more important work.
The policy has been met with mixed reactions from employees. Some employees support the policy, arguing that it will help to reduce the number of unnecessary meetings. Others are critical of the policy, arguing that it is unfair and that it will discourage employees from scheduling meetings altogether.
It remains to be seen whether the new policy will be effective in reducing the number of pointless meetings at Shopify. However, the policy has certainly generated a lot of discussion about the value of meetings in the workplace.
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I once worked for a company that could have used this Pointless Meeting Policy.
It was so bad that, when I would get calls setting up new meetings I would say something like this to the callers...
I’m sorry but my contact with the company stipulates that I only am required to go to 2,792 meeting a year (I always said, 2,792). We are now into July and I passed my required maximum meeting number on April 23rd. I have not been to a meeting since that date and I am not coming to your meeting.
Of course, I went to the meetings. In my Mediocre Automotive Career I liked to Rock the Boat but did not have enough guts to Over Turn the Boat.
I am glad I did not Over Turn the Boat because that bit of Get Along “Wisdom” entitled me to a Mediocre Pension.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: At the company I worked for 322,000 hours of useless meeting time was a drop in the bucket. Shopify seems really serious about stopping their Pointless Meeting Epidemic which does appear to Fella to be of Epic Proportions. If these Shopify people had been in charge of trying to stop my former company's Pointless Meetings they would have set up Company Firing Squads.
