Should be an email. The problem is you end up with people who also never send the update email. So if you have a team of people who do that great. I’ve worked on teams where everyone is great at their job, but they are all focused on their tasks and never update their tasks as completed leaving the manager unsure where our progress is on milestones causing problems for them when it comes to task planning and scheduling. So if I have to have a meeting, 1 10 minute meeting a week isn’t a bad trade off.