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.
Meetings should be short and and precise. A general meeting where a team of 10 or less people updating what they are working on or have accomplished should not take more than 13 minutes tops. ideally 10 or less but I give 3 for the general good morning how is everyone doing kind of small talk
I know someone very well that works at a major tech firm that has amenities like this. On their new employee orientation it was encouraged that you take advantage of these perks, but to only use them within reason. Like on your 10-15 minute breaks or lunch not spend your whole day using them. And that those found using them more than working would need to be updating their resumes because you will be fired. I don’t know what the women who make these kind of videos do. But I can’t imagine their peers respect them at all if this really is a day in the life of their time at work and not a recruiting video.
Slash it! Slash it!