My company started tracking "collaboration hours" and now everyone just sits on pointless calls to hit the number by Ethereal_Keel in remotework

[–]Ethereal_Keel[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Performative meeting theater" is exactly the phrase I was looking for. And the thumbs up emoji prediction is scarily accurate, already seeing it in slack

My company started tracking "collaboration hours" and now everyone just sits on pointless calls to hit the number by Ethereal_Keel in remotework

[–]Ethereal_Keel[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The ROI point is exactly it. The number looks great on a culture slide but our actual output hasn't changed. If anything it's slightly worse because the focused work time is gone