My wife would be in the former category (PO for the biggest software product in her company). Some days she has meetings back to back for 8h straight.
She hates in person meetings. According to her:
Online/hybrid meetings are easier to keep on schedule (both starts and finishes are often delayed)
In person meetings more often go off topic
back to back meetings means going from one meeting room to another in person, sometimes in another building. That same time can instead be used to take notes/prepare the next meeting when you don’t have to walk anywhere and just click a button to be In the next call
when a meeting turns out to be irrelevant or useless to you, it is socially not acceptable to get up and leave. Just not having your camera on and doing other work on the side works without anyone knowing
In person work is only for when companies don’t trust their employees. This is also true for people whose main work tool is meetings.
back to back meetings means going from one meeting room to another in person, sometimes in another building
Lol I used to work as a contractor for a small company at the Comcast Center HQ in Philadelphia. We had the gig producing Comcast’s mobile apps. One day my boss emailed me and said we were going to meet with Time Warner Cable to talk about handling their mobile apps as well. When he showed up I started to put my coat on and he said “what are you doing?” We then took the elevator up to the 16th floor … where TWC had an actual suite of fucking offices in the Comcast Center. The subsequent announcement of the merger between Comcast and TWC was no surprise to me, at least.
She sounds like a great PO. Especially if she is aware and encourages that last point.
I’m currently losing my mind where going to the office is being praised on a weekly basis as this excellent way to increase productivity. At the same time as I’m spending about 90% of time on meetings. They don’t realise that the underlying problem is a dysfunctional management, and exactly what you’re describing, as a trust issue. More than half the meetings are unnecessary, and disguised micromanagement.
My wife would be in the former category (PO for the biggest software product in her company). Some days she has meetings back to back for 8h straight.
She hates in person meetings. According to her:
In person work is only for when companies don’t trust their employees. This is also true for people whose main work tool is meetings.
Lol I used to work as a contractor for a small company at the Comcast Center HQ in Philadelphia. We had the gig producing Comcast’s mobile apps. One day my boss emailed me and said we were going to meet with Time Warner Cable to talk about handling their mobile apps as well. When he showed up I started to put my coat on and he said “what are you doing?” We then took the elevator up to the 16th floor … where TWC had an actual suite of fucking offices in the Comcast Center. The subsequent announcement of the merger between Comcast and TWC was no surprise to me, at least.
She sounds like a great PO. Especially if she is aware and encourages that last point.
I’m currently losing my mind where going to the office is being praised on a weekly basis as this excellent way to increase productivity. At the same time as I’m spending about 90% of time on meetings. They don’t realise that the underlying problem is a dysfunctional management, and exactly what you’re describing, as a trust issue. More than half the meetings are unnecessary, and disguised micromanagement.