Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Too many managers with nothing to do, what else would you expect?

In WXPS department (tech), the increase in frequency of meetings (and subsequent time) is the direct result of the micromanaging the paperwork related to every single little minor task without any regard to the big picture. We are trapped in a perpetual revolving door of myopic work that creates reactionary cleanup, frustration and shallow minded resolution for the long term. It is a negative feedback loop that everyone is expected to feed or else be cast aside as an enemy of progress.

So if WXPS was a radio station, its only programming would be "This is an actual emergency broadcast, not a test....bleeeeeep, bleeeeeeep...."

A typical week for me used to be about an hour of meetings a day. Now I spend between 3-5 hours a day in meetings. It is because of micromanagement.

Instead of a technical meeting and getting on with work, it is constant interruption throughout the day because a pointy hair boss a few levels up wants daily status updates and keeps throwing down busy work outside the defined product model path that has to be completed ASAP, generating constant last second pop up meetings.

The only way to manage teams across all time zones is to orchestrate, and that means more meetings. I no longer even recognize what the vision or strategy is. We're in perpetual chaos that only gets worse with each passing year. What does transformation even mean?

MS Teams usage increased since 2020. Good for Microsoft though.

Many companies started using Microsoft Teams since 2020. Naturally, MS Teams meeting times tripled.

Many global companies have teams that are spread all over the world. They all need to work with people in different time zones. They must have virtual meetings unless you are willing to travel all over the world every week.

Many employees started working from home since Covid, so I am sure the number spiked around 2020-2022.

@khh+1tuhUDbX, you are correct, many more companies started using Microsoft Teams since 2020.

That's because many companies ditched Zoom and switched to MS Teams.

What about working meetings? Especially with remote work, people may be sharing the same screen during these sessions.

I'm skeptical about this data....

I believe many meetings were not scheduled in Teams before --- instead, they were held locally in the office with a verbal agreement.