Atlassian uses Loom videos for routine updates and saves live meetings for moments that need real connection. They call these intentional gatherings ITGs, and the split lets teams stay async-first without losing the camaraderie that happens when people actually show up together.
Sometimes the path is not always clear. There's, you know, conflicting ideas or options or whatever. The best way to resolve those sometimes is just to get on a call, you know, spiral out, debate, and then ultimately come out of that meeting with a decision. So, yeah, we haven't replaced all meetings, but certainly the vast majority of meetings could be a loom and our looms at Atlassian, which then frees up the time for one focused work or two to have those discussions, like deep discussions and debates in an actual live meeting. You touched on like camaraderie and all that sort of stuff. So at Atlassian, we're very intentional about these on site kind of meetings that we have. So getting the team together at an office or whatever, for both team building reasons, as well as just getting stuff done together as a team, whether it's like planning and strategy stuff or whatever, we call those ITGs or intentional togetherness gatherings, which is like being just very intentional about everyone being in person one place, one time. And we found that a little bit of in person time like that can then sustain you over the next, you know, two or three months through the zoom calls and the, and the looms, and then you do it again a quarter later or whatever the cadence is. And that's enough to keep human beings going for the most part.