Why you should kill the standing one-on-one meeting

The weekly check-in is a habit from an office-first, synchronous work environment. Today, it should not be a default for managers.

By noon on a recent Tuesday, my calendar had already decided what kind of manager I would be. Back-to-back 1:1 meetings until the end of the day. Nothing was on fire, yet nothing was moving either. That might be fine in a slow cycle. It is not fine when you are releasing new features in real time and your best engineer has three recruiters in her inbox. In this market, teams don’t just compete on comp alone. They compete on how much freedom they have to actually create and build.