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1.5% of a workweek is 36 minutes.

I don’t know how you can get a team of developers to productively spend 39 hours and 24 minutes of keyboard time productively coding in the same direction with only 36 minutes of discussion.

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That works great in FAANG companies, you might have 1-3 hours of meetings in total a week. That is how your typical PhD program works too, meet with your supervisor once a week. And low meeting culture seems to work just fine for the Linux kernel developers too. You're always free to engage in extracurricular activities, but it's not mandatory.

It's the lesser tier, often non-tech companies doing this kind of micromanagement.

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