Rethinking

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri’s latest memo didn’t just cover RTO. It also tackled something that employees and leaders alike love to hate: the recurring meeting.The memo, titled “Building a Winning Culture in 2026,” said that recurring meetings will be canceled every six months and only re-added if “absolutely necessary.” He…

This ‘as-told-to’ essay is based on a conversation with Jugal Bhatt, a 24-year-old software engineer at Amazon based in Phoenix. Business Insider has verified his employment with documentation. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.Eight months before graduation, I began searching for a software engineering role. I thought…