Mr Devoy has gone a step further in his purge of technology. He has banned PowerPoint presentations from meetings, and finds that discussion now flows more freely.

　　Nena Chaletzos, chief executive and founder of online travel start-up Luxtripper, is also a supporter of tech-free meetings. She runs her company’s weekly meeting without phones or laptops, and permits only the occasional video demonstration. Instead, for the one-hour meeting, her team of eight are asked to bring along the A3 whiteboard they have each been given, on which they write meeting notes and action points. At the end of the meeting, everyone’s actions for the week are agreed. The whiteboards are kept on show and tasks are rubbed off as they are completed.

　　?I tell them to bring their ideas and brains to the session, not their technology,” Ms Chaletzos says. Once the meeting went on for three hours; discussion is now so much more focused and productive that it can be kept to a strict 60 minutes, she says. At first, colleagues worried about customers being unable to reach them, but Ms Chaletzos told them that all they needed was a warning. An unexpected benefit, she says, is that meetings are much more friendly and open.

　　Technology is still very much used at the start-up but only at the right time. For example, Ms Chaletzos’ team use Slack, which has helped end the need for other meetings.

　　8. Why did Paul Devoy ban digital devices from meetings?

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