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Shopify scraps 10,000 meetings for employee productivity experiment: interview

January 8, 2023

In one swoop, Shopify estimates it scrapped 10,000 events from corporate calendars as part of a bold experiment from the Ottawa-based company to increase employee productivity over the next few weeks. Farah Nasser speaks with Shopify vice president of engineering Farhan Thawar.

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