Timnit Gebru (she/her).Meetings should be 30 minutes by default unless there are circumstances that warrant more time. A lot can be done in 30 minutes. That's one thing I agree with Google people on, but then again, people added so many random meetings on calendars without even asking first.
Mark@timnitGebru Agree.
But, I think there are two groups in every company: A) the group that is keen to leave meetings to get back to their work, and B) the group that gets its work done through meetings. B only benefits from shorter meetings to the extent they can switch topics and rejig participants, but they’ll be talking to more or less the same people all day anyway. A never seems to understand this.
The most important thing in corporate life is to know which group you are suited to.