Company
Date Published
Author
Gremlin
Word count
631
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Gremlin has introduced a series of playful yet purposeful strategies to combat virtual meeting fatigue as remote work relies heavily on video conferencing tools like Zoom. These strategies, termed "attacks," include the Meeting Shutdown, which randomly removes meetings to assess necessity, and the Meeting Scheduler, which blocks off calendar time for focused work under the guise of fake commitments. Other strategies like the Meeting Shortener, which trims meeting durations, and the WebEx Switcharoo, which swaps Zoom calls to WebEx to provoke cancellations, further aim to optimize virtual meeting efficiency. These initiatives, humorously unveiled on April Fool's Day, align with Gremlin's broader mission of preemptively addressing potential system failures, enhancing their automated reliability platform that helps identify and mitigate availability risks before they affect users.