From a Wall Street Journal story by Lauren Weber headlined “One Company’s Trick to Getting 95,000 Hours Back? Canceling Meetings”:

When Reynolds American Inc. was preparing to update staff on its restructuring plans in January, it scrapped plans for a 90-minute town hall meeting. Instead, it posted a 10-minute video for employees to watch.

Meetings are the new corporate hobgoblin. Executives at Shopify Inc., Wayfair Inc. and other firms say overstuffed calendars—partly a symptom of more remote work that crimped quick, serendipitous gatherings—waste thousands of hours and cut into productivity.