Does your company do All Hands meetings?

We have all hands meetings for our group, division and the company. I try not to attend them because they usually boil down to two different things; we're doing great but not great enough or we've decided to re-brand/re-name/re-org, nothing will change but we're going to re-brand/rename and re-org. None of them are conversations they are presentations with Q&A from the lapdogs.

Yes. They’re professionally produced like a TV episode. All presenters must rehearse. An incredible waste of time and money.

My last company did them monthly I think. They were optional and I stopped attending them after a while because I had other things to do with the time. They felt more like a webinar talking about general news in the company, high level strategy, etc.

Then I ended up getting laid off abruptly, or so, I thought. Most people seemed to get blindsided by it, but a few people I spoke to who were heavily involved in the all-hands said that while nothing explicitly looked bad, there had been some ominous signs in the past few.

Yeah. In the past some companies were doing it every month or so, sometimes on Fridays at 16:00... and I attended only once. Somehow I thought they were doing it at such times because "it's Friday! Let's relax and stop working at 16!". There are better ways to spend the Friday afternoon.

In other companies they were doing the All Hands on normal office hours. I usually like it because I can listen (camera off) without participating, so, maybe I can do it from the sofa, or while eating something in the kitchen.

We do have them weekly. I feel it's more about conversation than webinars. Primarily for alignment's sake, we're remote team – everyone be on the same stage and have some fun.

My current company does them. I think they're too often. It's very webinar-like, and there's little-to-no time for Q&A. I would prefer an annual or semi-annual webinar-style all hands, and then have departmental all-hands that are more town hall focused with higher engagement.

We have a lot of townhall meetings. It's part presentation, and part Q&A.

Yea they’re basically chances for execs to dunk on plebeian workers

My small company (30people) has one about each quarter. More just to keep everyone up to speed on the latest etc

Formal. Almost certainly. Webinar (feels like Amway recruitment).