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> Having the top management say "try to cut down on unnecessary meetings" is a good way to give individual employees cover.

It is a good way. Shopify should have considered doing that, and let managers make the call, instead of summarily killing all meetings remotely and leaving managers to reschedule everything from scratch.

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Because of status quo bias, "do I need to create a 1 hour sync meeting for this" is a very different question than "should I cancel the 1 hour sync meeting for this". I'm generally on a very low meeting team, and I still have 2.5 hours a week of meetings that I don't expect would be recreated if some calendar glitch deleted them.

Have you tried suggesting to cancel them?

It worked for one meeting. For the others, everyone I talked to had a vague sense that someone else might be getting value out of the meeting. I don't mean to criticize, I've had that vague sense too, and I bet I'm wrong about some of the meetings I do think are useful.

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