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🖤 This page had us at ‘Transparency’, but we just love any focus that companies give intentionally to communication and also meetings. Meetings are something that have changed drastically since 2020, and people are sometimes still unsure of how to approach them, deal with them, run them… It’s so comforting to see information like the below from Checkly as an employee or a potential applicant. Awesome work from Checkly. 👏

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Remote work comes with challenges: an office enables you to just listen by chance to what your co-workers are discussing, and you could add valuable details or join the conversation.

Remotely, we need some more structure.

TL;DR

• use async whenever possible.
• if you plan a meeting, prep it, set an agenda and goal.

📆 Meetings

By default use async, written communication.

• With every meeting, ask yourselves “does this need to be a video call?”. If not, handle it async.
• Prep a document in Notion and invite your co-workers to contribute.
• Do set a target date for resolving the async “meeting”!

Video calls are the last option.

Video calls are an important tool for good communication. However, they are very demanding on individuals calendars, especially in a global, remote company