Opinion

February 27, 2023

Making your all-hands meeting suck less

If your employees are Googling other stuff during their all-hands or checking celeb gossip, it's time to make a change


Jag and Oliver try to bring fun to their all-hands

Most all-hands meetings suck energy from your team. You can tell it’s not working by all the people who are very obviously looking at their phones, Googling the latest celeb gossip or haven’t muted themselves and are having a separate conversation. 

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