Asynchronous schedules could be the new way to work. Any thoughts

completely agreed! a cost of async schedule is being able to communicate effectively in long form, which is a rare skill currently though.

The open source community has been doing this for over 15 years with all development happening over email, irc, bug trackers across multiple timezones without a single meeting. Welcome! (Yes, the communication overhead is higher, but the end result is for everyone to see)

It has been really beneficial at my company for everyone. Gumroad is the biggest company I am aware of that is working async completely and it seems to be doing great too.

Does it basically mean no meetings- just define a set of targets and expect everyone to be accountable?

@fresh-analyst-84724 It means scheduling meetings with extreme prejudice. Some practices I follow with my teams: • Status report calls are useless and can be done offline in a shared doc or reporting tool (Jira, Asana, etc.) • No agenda = No meeting (permanent agenda = status reporting = no meeting) • If a middle-manager/PM needs a call to understand what their team is doing, they're not doing their jobs. Automate data gathering from your reporting tools and stop wasting your team's time • Meetings are NOT a place for team building. Take them out to lunch instead. (Remote version: Fly them to a nice location for a few days and talk) • Use a meeting cost calculator (https://jonaspfannschmidt.com/meetingcostticker/index.html) and ask yourself if this is the best use of your team's time • Do schedule meetings to solve specific problems that requires cross-team communications