Focus Fridays and Maker Weeks at Slack

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Time and meeting management
Flexibility at work
Technology Adoption

Slack blog post detailing two company-wide initiatives designed to combat meeting overload and boost employee productivity: Focus Fridays, where all internal meetings are canceled to encourage focused individual work, and Maker Weeks, bi-quarterly periods with all recurring meetings suspended to allow for deep work on larger projects. The programs, piloted and refined based on employee feedback, aim to improve work-life balance and foster a more asynchronous, flexible work environment. Positive employee response, with over 80% reporting benefits, demonstrates the success of these initiatives in addressing a widespread problem of meeting fatigue and promoting more effective work practices.

  • Benefits of Focus Time: Enabling Deep Work
  • Impact of Schedule Flexibility on Productivity
  • Leveraging Technology to Improve Productive Time Management
  • Meetings Management: Building Better Practices
  • Scaling Time Management Programs in Organizations
  • Experimentation and Iteration in Future of Work
  • Building Asynchronous Collaboration

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