Get the latest tech news
Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
In 2011, Larry Page became CEO of Google and tried to fix meetings. But his new policies were no match for Google Calendar pedants.
One of his first actions was to shutter tons of projects that didn’t make tactical or strategic sense, and focus on fewer efforts. But you could never shake the feeling that Larry Page had to make decisions all day long and forgot that sometimes people meet for other reasons. So they did what any rational engineering team would do: they started booking their standup in the tiny 10-minute time slices that were free on the calendar of every meeting room.
Or read this on Hacker News
