Shopify has decided this year to turn around the dynamics of its workers and announced that eliminated 76,500 hours of online meetings during the first two weeks of the year.
According to Shopify’s COO Kaz Nejatian, this is a new strategy for their employees to really have time to work and to create.
Nejatin added that none of the Shopify workers were hired to spend hours in online meetingsbut to contribute their creativity to the productivity of the company.
“We started the year with a useful elimination, freeing ourselves from an absurd amount of meeting time and unlocking an incredible amount of creation time”, Nejatian pointed out, in a letter that the company sent to its workers.
Shopify’s plan eliminated all scheduled meetings for workers on Wednesdays and any recurring gatherings with three or more peopleas well as any gathering with at least 50 people scheduled on Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Shopify believed that by making this decision, the company is looking to help its employees get their jobs done.
After learning of Shopify’s decision, one of its spokespersons said in a report from FoxBusinessthat the elimination of the 76,500 hours of online meetings not only seeks to reduce the number of hours that its workers spend in this type of activity.
“Is about clear larger time slots to release them from meetings,” the spokesperson said.
“Someone can have three or four 30-minute meetings in a morning, but if the space between any of them is less than an hour, then each of those periods are gaps and it’s almost impossible to get real work done at this time”, he abounded.
Changes in work dynamics
In the memo to employees, Shopify’s COO asked employees to be “very, very critical” to add new meetings after the purge that the company carried out to the agendas of its labor base.
“No one joined Shopify to sit in meetings. Not a single person has thought: ‘you know what will have a big impact on entrepreneurship? A day after day of back-to-back meetings’” the executive said.
According to Nejatian, the company’s decision has to do with an adjustment on how and where Shopify focuses its attention and the time of its employees, as well as the way in which it communicates internally.
Faced with this, he added that a change was made to Meta’s Workplace platform to replace emails and the way employees use Slack is being changed so that it only works as an online messaging platform.
“Uninterrupted time is the most precious resource of a worker and we are giving our people a “no blame zone” to eliminate, reject meetings and focus on what is most valuable.”, Nejatian said.
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