The no-meetings policy came about after employees expressed a desire to forgo meetings to allow them “more time to think, plan, focus, and execute.” Zoom said the policy was so popular that, as of March last year, 84% of its workers wanted to keep it.
“As we further ramp up on hybrid work, we’ve decided to make another change and end our No Internal Meeting Wednesdays,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in a memo. “We move fast, and this effort has become more of a barrier to collaboration than it was intended. And as an increasingly global company, no Internal Meeting Wednesday creates a lack of clarity for Zoomies working across multiple time zones.”
Zoom also recently joined other companies in wanting its staff to report to their brick and mortar offices.