# No Meeting Wednesdays At Asana > At Asana, we have a rule: no meetings on Wednesdays. In fact, we call Wednesdays at Asana 'No Meeting Wednesdays' or 'NMW' for short. Source: https://asana.com/inside-asana/no-meeting-wednesdays ## No meeting Wednesdays At Asana, we have a rule: no meetings on Wednesdays. In fact, we call Wednesdays at Asana “No Meeting Wednesdays” or “NMW” for short. The [high-level goal of NMW](https://wavelength.asana.com/workstyle-no-meeting-wednesdays/) is to ensure that everyone gets a large block of time each week to do focused, heads-down work. The justification is well articulated in a now famous Paul Graham article: [Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule](http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html). The gist is that makers suffer greatly from interrupts in their flow time. Managers are generally used to having a schedule-driven day, so it’s easy for them to throw a disruption into somebody else’s calendar. Makers also do this to each other. And unlike many companies, at Asana we generally want our managers to be makers some of the time as well, so they need a structure that ensures they get some flow time too. ## What are appropriate exceptions to the rule? The exceptions that comes up the most often are exogenous timing constraints of some kind. For example, a job candidate might only be able to do an interview on a Wednesday. In that case, we’re willing to let their schedule take priority over ours. Sometimes, people on the team may also decide they want to work directly with someone else on a project (e.g. pair coding). This may still be worth avoiding somewhat to achieve the [high-level goal](https://wavelength.asana.com/work-plans-high-level-objectives-roadmap-week/), but not totally. Often, this is necessary to unblock someone else, which is another form of exogenous time constraint in the end. And sometimes teaming up is just what you both need to do to finish your highest priority work. That’s ok, too. Essentially, we encourage our team to just use judgment, but please think carefully, and at least try hard to avoid meeting on Wednesdays. ## What if people don’t want to participate? This would be ok, except that by definition a meeting involves someone else, too. It’s tempting to say “well they can just push back if they want to”, but it is easy to imagine situations where it wouldn’t feel culturally acceptable to do so, or an individual wouldn’t feel confident enough (e.g. a newer asana). So basically there is a slippery slope here and thus we want to be very (but not 100%) consistent. **Fittingly, this article was written on a Wednesday.** - [Momentos que marcaram a carreira: sessão de perguntas e respostas com líderes da Asana](/pt/inside-asana/career-defining-moments) Equipe Asana A Asana tem o compromisso de ajudar seus funcionários a crescerem pessoal e profissionalmente. Acreditamos que a melhor forma de apoiar o crescimento profissional seja por meio de ... - [Como a Asana usa a Asana: gerenciando uma equipe distribuída](/pt/inside-asana/how-asana-managing-distributed-teams) Equipe Asana #### Redatora Manter-se conectado não é uma tarefa fácil, mas, durante a transição para o trabalho remoto, a liderança das equipes tem precisado se adaptar rapidamente ao gerenciamento de equip ... - [Liderança em meio a mudanças: como estamos conduzindo o trabalho remoto na Asana](/pt/inside-asana/remote-work-leadership) Equipe Asana Cuidar do bem-estar de nossos funcionários e atender aos nossos clientes sempre foi a principal preocupação da Asana. À medida que tantas equipes ao redor do mundo, inclusive a no ... - [Como a nossa equipe se mantém conectada ao trabalhar à distância](/pt/inside-asana/staying-connected-while-working-remotely) Equipe Asana Embora a essência da cultura de uma empresa não dependa da interação física entre as pessoas, costuma se manifestar de maneiras que aproximam as pessoas no mesmo espaço físico. Ma ... - [No meeting Wednesdays](/pt/inside-asana/no-meeting-wednesdays) Equipe Asana At Asana, we have a rule: no meetings on Wednesdays. In fact, we call Wednesdays at Asana “No Meeting Wednesdays” or “NMW” for short.The high-level goal of NMW is to ensure that e ... - [Equipe Asana](/inside-asana/team-asana)