Business

Should companies stop scheduling meetings outside of working hours?

For

It protects personal time and helps work-life balance.

Against

Global teams sometimes need flexible meeting times.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • Your day off is your day off, another thing is that it is regulated by agreement and you are compensated for these types of meetings.
    RedditTranslated from Spanish
  • People do not like their work life balance interrupted. That is a really quick way to be deemed inconsiderate & become disliked on your team.
    RedditOriginal language: English

Against

  • As a PM you have to be able to have live conversations with people when async conversations just won't work.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • I do take calls at 7am and 8pm sometimes but I don't mind, everyone in the team is fairly engaged in making it work.
    RedditOriginal language: English
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