Blazing the trail with No meeting Wednesdays

At FiftyFive Technologies, we are all set to roll out a new initiative for our FiftyFive Tech Family. We are blazing the trail with no meeting day every week. Let the “No internal meetings on Wednesdays prevail” so that employees can work without internal distractions for a day. When it comes to the productivity hacks, we at FiftyFive Tech, manages to crack the code, by bringing “No meeting on Wednesdays policy” abode. Let us discuss our vision to start this policy:

1. An attempt for a proper work life balance: Sometimes, a lot of internal meetings cause a chaotic life for the employees, and they fail to strike a proper balance between work and life. So this policy will help them to manage the work and also they have time to perform their personal committments.
2. To set the detoxifying mode: The “No Internal meetings on Wednesdays” help the people to transition from the stressful mode to a detoxifying mode. Detoxifying is imperative for the smooth functioning of the tasks. Due to everyday meetings, employees feel rigid. We all are humans, not robots, so we need flexibility. If we are fed with lots of information during the internal meetings, it is difficult to assimilate and process them, it creates a ruckus in the mind. With the absence of Internal meetings on Wednesdays, we all can step back, relax and then retrospect to break the tasks into chunks in order to perform them.
3. Management by Zero-interruption: A lot of modern management theories had been proposed by Henry Fayol, Peter Drucker, Fredrick Taylor with respect to principles, Time management. “No meetings Day” will work as a policy by which we can have a smooth implementation of management by exception- i.e when there is an emergency or when a client wants full attention to minimize the errors which require both employees and CXO’s immediate attention. With zero-interruption the client issues can be resolved in an accurate way. No internal meetings on Wednesdays promotes management by zero-interruption, which eventually lead to the fulfillment of time management as well management by exception can be run in a smooth manner.?
4. Enhancing creativity: Increasing creativity and innovation is one of the important aspects of almost every company. Companies roll out different policies and initiatives to boost learning. But if it is costing excessive burden among employees, then these policies are ineffective and are dime a dozen in this scenario. Because many companies roll out creativity boosting sessions, hold many meetings, this wastes time and people can be less creative. Creativity infusion comes with patience, with no internal meetings on Wednesdays or alternate days can increase the thinking and problem solving ability of the employees, and they can surprise their clients in a positive & creative way.?
5. A great productivity booster: For FiftyFive Technologies, boosting productivity? is one of the important elements. According to the figures by getclockwise.com the average employee attends 62 meetings per month. Of course, it also depends on the nature of Industry, in service Industry it can go upto 126 meetings per month composed of 21 days excluding weekends. The Internal meetings can also be unproductive and could cost and eat up the productive time by more than 40%, because it can take time to restore back the efficiency. That is why “No Internal Meetings” can act as “The magic bullet” ?to boost the productivity, keeping a day off from internal meeting, employees and even top executives can jot the concerns and the issues, or other points of discussion can be easily as well as lucidly explained in the meeting on the next day. This boosts efficiency as well as productivity.
6. An important element of the FiftyFive Culture: We at FiftyFive Technologies, envision to build a culture which is “People centric” as well as “Going beyond the tech” . In order to build an atmosphere that helps employees to breathe and relax and then get down to work is important. All work and no rest can reduce productivity and also jeopardize life commitments, so we introduced this policy to create a robust culture which strives to achieve great productivity but not at the cost of extreme pressure.

With these points in mind, we at FiftyFive Technologies? understand that there should be a proper balance between personal and professional life and employees should be left with wide spaces in their minds to restore their creativity, they can manage time, remain focused on the tasks at hand and can perform their daily household duties as well.