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e-commerce giant Shopify kicks off the new year by deleting more than 76,500 hours of meetings from employee calendars in 2023.
“We’re starting the year fresh with some useful cutbacks; we’re freeing ourselves of ridiculous meeting time and unlocking an incredible amount of maker time,” said Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian in an internal letter to and received by employees. FOX Business.
To help staff get more done, the company has canceled all Wednesday meetings and recurring meetings with three or more people, as well as meetings with at least 50 people on Thursdays between 11am and 5pm.
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A Shopify spokesperson told FOX Business that it’s not just about the number of meetings.
“Furthermore, the larger meeting clears up free time,” the spokesperson said. “For example, someone might have 30-minute meetings 3 or 4 times in the morning, but if the gap between them is less than an hour, then each of these small gaps is nearly impossible. get real work done”
The corporate logo of the e-commerce company Shopify was hung on the building where the offices of Shopify Commerce Germany GmbH are located on August 18. 8, 2022, Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Nejatian asks employees not to add any of these meetings back at least two weeks. From this point on, they are instructed to “be really critical of what you add.”
“No one has joined Shopify to attend meetings. No one has ever thought, ‘you know what to do’. huge impact on entrepreneurship? It’s back-to-back meetings every day,” he said.
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The move is part of what Nejatian calls a chaotic effort to change the way the company communicates, as well as how and where it focuses its time and attention.
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is at Center Stage on day two of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. (David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile via Getty Images/Getty Images)
In addition to liquidating employee calendars, the company adds: Workplace by Meta It replaces e-mail as a platform for asynchronous communication. Going forward, Slack will also be used as instant messaging only.
“As we start 2023, we’re introducing changes to reimagine how we can make the biggest impact on our mission to make commerce better for all,” he added. “Uninterrupted time is a craftsman’s most valuable resource, and we don’t give our people a “judgment room” to drop out, decline meetings, and focus on what’s most valuable.”
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Nejatian said it would take six months for most companies to make such a change, but Shopify deliberately “caused such intense discomfort and distraction that we got over it too quickly before we could get on with what matters most.”
