TechSmith’s Async-First Study Eliminated Meetings and Saw +15% Increase in Employee Productivity
Seeking an effective solution with fewer and better meetings, the company took a radical approach and tested a month with no meetings across its 300 employee base to help build its ideal hybrid work culture of the future.
- Seeking an effective solution with fewer and better meetings, the company took a radical approach and tested a month with no meetings across its 300 employee base to help build its ideal hybrid work culture of the future.
- This was encouraging, and reinforced the company’s hypothesis that productivity can be fine-tuned at both an individual and corporate level.
- 8% increase in perceived importance of meetings: TechSmith asked employees to review all synchronous meetings on their calendars and rate each on a scale of one (“Not Important”) to five (“Very Important”).
- 85% of employees will consider replacing future meetings after the experiment: Employees agreed that asynchronous communication habits were worth learning and adopting.