👥 Everybody Works and the impact on meetings

In a recent podcast titled Everybody Works, the owners of a 60-person company discuss the impact of full-time managers and one of them is more meetings:

And the primary problem with management is when it’s full time and it’s only that it can’t do anything by itself. So the way 40 hours are manifested is through other people. It’s, hey, can you join this meeting? Hey, can we do a one-on-one? Hey, can we do some planning? Hey, can we do? Every bit of it is something that pulls someone who’s actually working on things away from that work and into the managerial orb. And I think we just finally came to the realization we did not need that. We do not need that at our scale, that we can supplement the work that we’re doing with a handful of managerial practices or protocols, things that don’t even require human to run.

The following article also discusses the subject:

We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals