A CEO describes meeting every one of their 300 employees one-on-one annually. They explain the time math (about six 30-minute meetings per week across 50 weeks ≈ three hours/week, ~5% of working hours) and argue this investment yields higher employee engagement, direct awareness of company problems, and strong influence—calling it the best time they spent as CEO.
Even at 300 people, I have one on one meetings with every single one of them. Sounds scary, but 50 weeks per year, only six one on ones per week. And each one, say half an hour, three hours of your time, that's maybe 5% of my working hours. And if you ask any CEO, hey, you spent 5% of your time, you can make sure all your employees are much more engaged. You know all the problems in the company, you can influence them directly. Would you spend that 5% of your time? No CEO would say no. It's actually best time I spent as a CEO.
